Is a government-run health care system going to make such stories more or less common?
Leaving aside questions of freedom and independence and being able to keep your own money and individual responsibility, on the basic question of effective delivery of care, I would wager that a government-run system is going to inevitably increase the frequency of tragedies like this.
There is NO DOUBT that the level of service will decrease with socialist healthcare. But the rank & file left won’t believe it. The siren song of a free lunch is too strong.
This should be solved the way Mitt solved the tax increase crowd in Mass -
set up a health care fund that libs can voluntarily contribute to and demonstrate how much they believe in it.