The basic problem is that once health care becomes a political matter, your voice in it is effectively subordinated to what bureaucrats determine is in your best interests. That shift in power is enhanced by the fact the government pays all the bills instead of you. The government determines how much it will pay doctors and health care providers. Decision-making will be driven by pressures to control costs and cut corners through rationing. If you need a hip replacement procedure done, you can wait years for that or any other medical care deemed elected by bureaucrats. Taxes will rise to fund the health care system. You will get coverage but it may not be what you need or want. There is no free lunch under any system of health care financing. Someone ultimately has to pay the bills and keep the costs in check. Here, its going to be the same people who brought us the government's response to the Katrina disaster. What's ironic is the sight of the liberals who denounce the government's ineptness in handling a natural disaster wax rhapsodic over the government's ability to run one-seventh of the American economy. It doesn't compute.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")