Greg G. wrote:

I have another interesting question: (to me, anyway)
If everyone who currently pays for health care insurance - directly or
indirectly - were assured that for the same money they could cover
everyone in the country with the same or improved levels of health
care, would they still be opposed to a Canadian/Aussie type health
care system? Or is that simply too much socialism for their psyches
to absorb?


Greg G.

I wonder how many of the people who curse the "socialism" of various other
national health care systems even know how they actually work? Is a system
where people are free to choose their doctors etc. and where doctors work
for themselves or a hospital actually "socialist" just because payment comes
through govt.-administered insurance? Is the govt. requiring private
insurance companies to offer at least one policy meeting a minimum level of
coverage "socialism"? Or is "socialism" largely the preferred bogeyman of
those who don't know how the rest of the world does it, they just know they
don't like whatever it is?