It is of particular note that the residents have attempted to resort to barter to compensate for the failures of socialism. I could almost predict that such attempts to subvert the socialist system is illegal. Hillarycare (the detailed proposal) specified a $50 000 fine and/or five years in prison for treating a patient outside the system.
The actual proposal contained many interesting and important reflections of what American socialists are planning, or fantasize about.
They clearly spent a lot of time thinking about how our liberties would tend to counteract their "solution", and planned accordingly.
Of course, as everywhere else, the politicians and their favorites would have access to a parallel system.
Wasn't there a bill sometimes referred to as "RISA" -- I think -- that would jail doctors for 2 years and $10K who refused Medicare/Medicaid patients...later overturned.
OR
Would jail them if they treated patients who *weren't* on Medicare if they accepted *any* Medicare patients in the last 2 years?