well, if having coverage if your priority you can
1. try finding employer who provides it (Wal-Mart is still hiring, doing good even now, making profits, and provides good health coverage)
2. you can utilize free healthcare clinics
3. you can buy catastrophic coverage to be covered for expensive medical expenses
what government can do to help those people afford coverage
1. tax-credits
2. allow people buy coverage out of state (this will generate REAL competition among insurance companies)
3. Tort-Reform (should lower healthcare costs and eventually insurance premiums in the future)
4. offer tax credits to doctros/hospitals who offer assistance to the uninsured
Remember having a job for those people is much more important than having coverage right now!