Healthcare: Let's Fix it Not Destroy It!

We have everything in place for a good healthcare system. What are the problems? High prices? Not everyone is covered? Other than that I would say its a pretty good system. So how about fix the problem.
1. The government regulations are too much. Allow providers to compete in all states, across state borders. This would lover prices and provide competition making prices and service infinitely better.
2. Not everyone has healthcare. First of all lets define healthcare that is needed. Lets make a catastrophic health insurance type. This would be the type everyone would be required to have. If you have to go to the hospital or if your bill was over a certain amount (which rarely happens), this would be covered. More like car insurance. Insurance doesn't cover the small routine stuff. Standard office visits would still have to be out of pocket. Physicians would need to somehow be given an incentive to lower prices. Once people are seeing the bill for standard office visits, they will begin to shop around and prices will fall.

How ever you slice it, there has to be a better solution than letting the government control healthcare. There goes competition, their goes incentive. The cost will be insurmountable. Lets not become another Canada with their long lines and their low quality services.