Health care reform: stop blaming and see the bigger picture

Let's say you are a die-hard believer in health insurance and government funding/subsidies for it to expand health coverage universally.

Without getting into any of the many economic reasons people oppose that, let's just look at the big picture of how politics goes back and forth every decade or so.

Given that you know any progress in publicly-funded health care is going to face cut backs at some point in the future, why wouldn't you want to work on making the industry more resilient to cuts?

In other words, wouldn't it be good to have universally-affordable health care that is LESS DEPENDENT on government funding so that people don't lose access to health care when government changes hands?

Wouldn't that be better than setting up an expensive system that will be cut down when the political tide changes?

Also, have you noticed that the bigger you make government, the more it benefits the rich to cut taxes? If you want smaller tax breaks for the rich, you need smaller government with less to cut, no?