There was no problem health care because up until the the middle of the last century when many of us were born, the life expectency was about 50+ and had been in the 40s at the turn of the century when Teddy Roosevelt helped to break up the monopolists who limited any benefits to the working class.  Then his 'traitor' cousin supported unions to end the growth of communist party and the American Nazi Party.  
Those unions corrupted the iron fist of the corporatists and demanded higher wages and living conditions and stopped 12 year olds working in mines and factories.  The economy boomed and the 50s-70s made us the richest people in the history of the world.
However, they destroyed the values of GOP Business of America is Business types.  Those pesky unionists resisted being treated as serfs and demanded Health insurance from their employers.  
A major threat to capitalism when bosses can't do anything they want to people like firing them if they lost a leg in the factory, damned libs.