Just been dealing with the pharmacy and our health insurance

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Can anyone give me an example of ANY problem that we'd have with socialized medicine that we don't have right now with our current health care system?

I mean, if I'm going to have to go through byzantine, bizzare, arbitrary bureaucracy and have to bang my head against walls and argue with people to have simple, commonsense health care taken care of, I'd like to at least know that it was available to everyone.

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Sorry to jump on you for agreeing with me, but...

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British or Canadian "top surgeon" they'd be assigned to the hardest cases

How so? Should socialized medicine have a mechanism for this? (I've never heard of such a thing.) It sounds nifty, but it also sounds pretty much impossible to implement.

It's very true -- capitalist medicine means the rich stay healthy and the sick stay poor. Believe me, I've been both. But socialist medicine needs to be implemented very, very carefully, because it's a system with no strong balancing force toward "right", and (like all socialist approaches I've seen so far) a strong force toward "what we have now, only cheaper and receiving less effort".