“We will have socialized medicine in a few years one way or another.”
If you think about it, we kind of already do. We have almost half of the country on socialized medicine or socialized insurance with the VA, Medicare and Medicaid. Then you have millions of children on the sCHIP program and lastly, you have tax free status on employer contributions to health premiums. It’s just a matter of semantics at this point. Even if the whole country goes to something you want to call another name, like Canada’s Medicare for all, we’re pretty much already there.
Unless you deny care to uninsured people at the ER, you’ve got socialized healthcare. Either the insured or the taxpayers are picking up that tab. Problem is, both present system and Obamacare do nothing about the high cost of that healthcare. Obamacare is just mandatory insurance. When the system is overloaded and collapses, the only one with the unlimited checkbook and money printing press is the US Gummint.