DISCLAIMER: I'm not Flashy.
Reform should be govt lead:
1) Govt. monies to educate more health care professionals. (Don't charge them tuition and double the tuition on liberal arts majors- kind of a joke but not really). Engineers, science and math majors should also go free if those are the kinds we are in need of to remain competitive.
2) Require drug companies not charge more than 5% for their drugs than they do any other industrialized nation (i.e. socialized Europe).
3) Require all doctors visits be audio recorded and procedures to be video taped. The tech exists. Tapes can be reviewed by the patient for remembering instructions and by others for a myriad of reasons including but not limited to malpractice insurances claims. Don't want your visit recorded then jury bias against your malpractice claim. I could expound on the cost savings but you're a smart guy.
4) Obama's medical records idea (though not his own) is a good start.
5) Don't allow hospitals to charge the uninsured more than 10% what they charge the insured.
6) Do like the Japanese did with scanning technology in order to lessen costs.
7) Encourage investment in technologies that would be home based test to cheaply, accurately and early detect medical problems (Nano tech frontier).
8) Find out what are the highest cost points in the system and try to mitigate them with technology or regulation.
9) Threaten insurance companies with "socializing" insurance. I.E. transforming them into not-profit entities.
10) Fuck this was a good one. I just can't remember it off hand... I should write this shit down.
11) And on and on....
The list could go into the fifty count and beyond, but Democrats and Republicans and Obama are too fucking lazy to look at the details, they'd rather toss around money. Obama is NO health care messiah and your picture of Argentina and Spain are grossly exaggerated. Plus, socialized Europe eats of the health tit of America as evidence in part by the link below:
Hit & Run > Now Playing at Reason.tv: Swedish Myths and Realities - Reason Magazine
Point being universal health care is a dumb idea. You're ideas are broke. :0)
Edit: P.S. I don't mean to be a complete ass (nothing personal just based on the examples you gave) but what lifestyles can lead to throat, colon and prostrate cancer? Ans: slutty ones. Mitigating promiscuity would also lessen medical costs. Can't figure out how to do that though.