All of Europe has socialized medicine. The heavily Catholic European counties as a whole tend to be much more conservative than the heavily protestant European countries (especially the Scandinavian countries like Norway/Finland/Sweden/Iceland, etc., all of which are around 90-95% protestant and have leftists in America gush over them because of their "progressive" policies). What's more, even within European countries, the Catholic populations tend to be much more conservative than their protestant counterparts (the UK being a clear example) I suppose an exception might be France, but only 5% of the "Catholics" in that country are practicing, and even there you see huge protests against gay marriage, unlike in the "progressive" protestant countries where gay marriage passes and everyone everyone celebrates.
Sorry the facts don't match your talking points. Feel free to visit Catholic Poland and compare it to Protestant Norway sometime if you don't believe me.
Did you miss the searing I gave the Protestants in post number 6 about once knowing the truth but embracing sin?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/3025072/posts?page=6#6