You dont need socialized medicine to solve the problems you state. > The freedom to move between employers and not have to concern yourself with tying your abi

You dont need socialized medicine to solve the problems you state. > The freedom to move between employers and not have to concern yourself with tying your ability to get specific health service based on an employer's ability (or whim). It is the government that subsidizes employer insurance (a 260 billion tax subsidy for the richer part of society) and has made it mandatory. Repeal laws and this would naturally stop happening. > The freedom to move geographically and not be concerned that you won't be able to afford access to health services. This is not solved by socialized medicine: in a full government control scheme, the government decides where the doctors and hospitals are through the payment model. And the government will pay differently based in location as it already does for federal grants to hospitals. > The freedom to start your own business (purportedly the backbone of 'US conservative thinking') without worrying about crippling debts. Just crippling taxes. Its not that the cost dissapears, its that its mandatory to finance it with taxes.