Well duh. But Americans don't need health insurance and uninsured citizens don't drive up hospital costs.

Anyone looking at employment stats will see how f*ed up the health care situation is in this country. Every other industry has laid people off, but health care just keeps padding the payrolls like nothing's happened with the economy.
After all, with a third-party payer system, there's no incentive to optimize cost effectiveness. It's no wonder why healthcare has gotten so ridiculously expensive year-over-year and the cost of covering employees is putting companies out of business. (And why an aspirin in the ER costs $65...)
What I don't get are people who are worried about bloated government bureaucrats running their health insurance, when the insurance companies now are already bloated, redundant, and set up to fight patient claims.
There are some passionate opponents of this health care reform, one of which is Peter Schiff who believes the free market should sort out the problem. He brings about legitimate concerns. One of the parallels he brought to the table was that government providing loans to students for college actually drives up college costs and allows those institutions to charge insanely high tuitions. If there were no government loans, tuition would be far cheaper.
I think he brings about fair points.
Problem is that health care is not a free market problem. Any time I pay you for a service, and the price of that service, the approval of that service, and the payment for that service is handled is decided and handle by an third, independent party -- that's not a free market.
There are no incentives to reduce costs: people order 10 of the latest MRI machines in their county, but nobody is rewarded for funding and selecting the 10 MRIs that reduce costs by 80%. So we pay NASA toilet seat prices for our medical equipment: stuff engineered only a handful of times and made obsolete immediately after limited manufacturing production.
Until you or I can make a decision for one type of procedure or doctor or other and the cost savings comes back to us somehow, there's no free market.