Updoot for making a comparison to Vogons. I live in Japan where there is socialized medicine, but the big difference is that Japan is 1. not a society of litigation and 2. not a country of mass, illegal immigration. As to the second point, the closest problem is especially Chinese who come here as tourists, somehow exploit the medical system, and return to their country and not pay the bills. In America, if some guy named Jose from Venezuela is rushed to the ER with a gunshot wound because he's a cretin, the hospital saves his live and never hears from him again. Then there are the frivolous lawsuits. My friend's wife had her own practice but when she saw what Obamacare would bring, she called it quits and became a tradwife, raising a family on a single income. He's an engineer, so they can afford it. Anyhow, Howard Dean at the time when Obamacare was being foisted on society even admitted himself that there would never be tort reform included in the package because the Democrat Party is beholden to the Trial Lawyers' Association.

So when Leftists in America look to socialized medicine as their ideal, they emulate Cuba or Canada rather than Japan where it actually sort of works. In America where you have healthcare legislation written by ambulance chasers, the individual is gonna get screwed. On the Right you have politicians who want you to pay through the nose for the medical industry to kill you, and on the Left you have politicians who want the medical industry to kill you "for free" (ie taxed to death). Either way, the medical industry kills you. That is the Rockefeller Western medical paradigm we live in.