If socialized medicine passes, we are all dead.
Yes, but it will be a slow, lingering death while you wait fo a doctor to be available in 6 months to look at you.
The truth is that it is self-destructive to continue with the present dysfunctional system as driven by HMOs, healthcare insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies whose interests are not oriented to either public health or a healthy society at all levels. Their continuation as the force behind the delivery of healthcare will ultimately result in becoming a leading component in the evolution of our society losing its middle class characteristic and taking on the nature of a Third World African or Central American division of the very wealthy and everyone else.
As with the current mess with immigration, you can lay the current mess in healthcare (such as it is) at the feet of one Sen. Edward Kennedy D-Mass.