It would help you to do actual research about candidates. Just sayin.
“The problem with health costs in America goes back to 1943,” he explained, which set the foundation for the employer-based health insurance system that insulates people from the costs of health care and puts employers in charge of choices.
And what is his plan to provide universal health insurance without a mandate?
Rep. Billy Long (R., Mo.) asked what Cain would do about preexisting conditions ... [Cain] said he believes it is a proper role for government to provide a safety-net, with both state and national contributions. “We don’t want to leave anybody out of getting health insurance coverage,” he said.
If you don't "leave anybody out" because of preconditions, nobody will buy health insurance until they are sick. The way Obamacare and Romneycare handled this was to require people to buy insurance -- thereby eliminating the very concept of pre-conditions since you will already HAVE insurance from birth, as required by law.
Cain doesn't seem to like that, so instead he offers a government solution. But if government will cover everybody with pre-existing conditions, so they are not "left out", again nobody will buy insurance. THe insurance industry will die, while everybody waits to get sick and then jumps into the government program.
You end up with government-provided insurance for everybody. Like medicare, with add-on insurance for rich people who don't like the government-insurance limitations.
Assuming you think government's job is to fix our "medical system", and apparently Herman Cain thinks so, if you aren't willing to "leave anybody out of getting health insurance", you will end up with either a mandated insurance purchase requirement, or a single-payer government-run health insurance system.
The Medical system is extremely complicated, and you don't fix it with platitudes and sound bites.