Personally, I think health insurance should be, you know, insurance. For catastrophic things you wouldn't wish on yourself and cannot save for. And there's a definite role for government to make sure that market is solvent and available to everyone.
For day-to-day healthcare, that should just be included in "cost of living" calculations. General-purpose welfare programs (or ideally a minimum income) would guarantee that people could afford checkups, birth control, etc.
Getting employers out of the business of all of the above is paramount and what businesses should be lobbying for. I believe the slow recovery from the recession has been affected by unintended (though not unpredicted) consequences of the ACA's failure to address this issue. The Republicans likewise seem happy to punt on the issue. It's this sort of thinking that is making the American electorate disgruntled with politicians and each other.