That's funny because I am disappointed that so many people talk as if socialized healthcare is the miracle cure for all our woes. There are a couple things you

That's funny because I am disappointed that so many people talk as if socialized healthcare is the miracle cure for all our woes. There are a couple things you just can't get around in any society. The Law of Supply and Demand, and that corporations serve their customers. That second one is the number one problem we have currently in the US. We, the patients, are not the customer. We are are basically a cost of doing business for the "insurance" companies and medical providers. Socialized medicine aims to solve this problem by removing all insurance companies and becoming the single customer for all medical providers, and then dictating how much they will pay. Due to Supply and Demand, if this single customer doesn't offer to pay enough, then the supply of medical care will go down. Again in this scenario, you and I are not the customer. If we don't like this reduction in supply, we don't have much we can do. We aren't allowed to offer to pay more to get what we want. If the government offers to pay more, the supply of medical care will go up, but where does that money come from? You and I, but again, we have almost no say in this.