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Universal Healthcare be provided to all American citizens

Seeing as how we have 4 rounds in this debate, I'm going to state my case in a simplistic manner, and I'll go back later to elaborate on any points that cause confusion. There are a lot of problems with the healthcare system that the United States currently has. Insurance companies make money off of not providing care, and 31 cents of every dollar that goes into healthcare goes into the maintenance of these corporations, rather than to the actual healthcare. These problems are cleaarly directly related to the free-market economy's control over healthcare; these are multi-billion dollar corporations operating in the free-market economy, and they are clearly where the problems in healthcare are coming from. In short, the free market is to blame for a good deal of the healthcare woes of the American system, so the only logical alternative is to take the system out of the hands of the free market, and into the hands of the government, where it can be strictly regulated to reduce problems. As I understand it, most of my opponent's claim is based upon the current inefficiency of government-run programs in the United States. I would certainly not argue with the fact that many of the government programs we have in the United States right now are overly bureaucratic and slow-moving. But this has no bearing on what a government-run healthcare system would be like. To say that the fact that some government institutions today are inefficient means that government-run healthcare would be inefficient, is like saying that because it rains on some days one can assume that it will rain tomorrow. This is clearly a logical fallacy.