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It might be of interest to you to know that effective January 2014, insurers are required to spend 80% of premiums on providing health coverage. Everything else - administrative costs, M&A, CEO salaries, payouts to stockholders, buying off Congresscritters - has to come from the remaining 20%. This is a first step.
Oh, that's not the first step. The first step was the 14th Amendment, where the Government gave rights... then the Progressive Income Tax... Then came Old Folks Insurance, then the Civil Rights Act, where the Government gave money to those it gave rights... then came the judicial activism, wherein the government gave the right for women to murder their pre-born children...
Socialism has taken many MANY steps up to it's providing 'free healthcare, by increasing insurance premiums by 4-5 times their actual value and simultaneously reducing the contracted values and services, specifically mandating private business... and in so doing, doing to the Insurance industry what it recently did for the Mortgage Industry.