Who the heck is going to want to be a doctor, or even a nurse if they are going to be forced to serve the miserable masses on the mm's terms? How would you like to run an automotive shop where everyone could just walk in and demand service and not worry about paying for it?
I think there probably should be some kind of catastrophic medical insurance that would be universally available to all legal citizens at an affordable price, but totally socialized medicine is not the answer.
I guess I was lucky to have had medical insurance for pretty much all of my life--or was it more a matter of good planning. Anyway, maybe people should put medical coverage a little higher on their list of priorities.
As I see it, there are very good reasons for why it costs so much for insurance these days. It used to be that when the old ticker got bad, you croaked; when you got cancer, or some other bad disease, you croaked; and so on. These days, death sentences are often delayed for years, or decades and it all comes at a very high cost. That is just the way it is and I for one am very, very grateful for it.
Let's just hope that we don't make things worse for everyone, just because some folks are having a tough time of it.