Problem with social health care is of course each successive government tries to purposely run it into the ground in my country so they can point to it's failur

Problem with social health care is of course each successive government tries to purposely run it into the ground in my country so they can point to it's failures and claim we must adopt a US style private insurance method. Another problem is creeping fees. Most clinics, hospitals ect all nickle and dime you for fees here which add up even though they aren't supposed to. Some regional health authorities here charge a flat monthly tax, which if you can't pay or are in arrears you're screwed and have to pay cash to these clinics. Because there is a standardized rate you're going to pay $135 just to talk to a doctor for 5 minutes because there's no low income clinics, all rates are the same. Source: my young, foolish self who had to pay this out numerous times to clinics for being behind on taxes. It's good that this works where you live but you need to be hyper vigilant on who is elected to govern your health authority, which is a huge downside of any kind of socialization of medicine. Governments are fleeting, the next one could purposely sabotage it to satisfy insurance lobbyists or be so incompetent they accidentally let it all go to hell.