“Socialism” doesn’t work, because it is a based upon false premises, a fundamental error in human nature.
It doesn’t matter whether talking about food, or “health care” or anything else. In the case of food, nobody put it better than Hayek or Friedmann or Sowell or whoever it was: “In socialism, people line up for bread. In a free market, the bread lines up for people.”
This is why in socialist societies, they put a price cap or “controls” on prices. It’s only “fair” for example, that bread doesn’t cost too much, after all, right? This sounds good, and strikes a chord with people, particularly young and idealistic types. Their heart might be in the right place, but it doesn’t work that way. So the shelves are bare.
“How much for a loaf of bread?” and the answer is “Same as always. 5c ... if we had any.”
Health care is no different. If it’s “free” there won’t be any, at least not for anyone who was suckered into voting for it. Same old same old. Worse, everything involved in a socialist society requires coercion and punishment and tyranny and eventually, piles of skulls to enforce a system that won’t function and can’t be made to function no matter how many “reactionaries” and kulaks are liquidated. Pretty damn sad, and in this country it is often the multimillionaires who insist that socialism is the way to go.
>multimillionaires who insist that socialism is the way to go
They think they will be running it if they get in front of it.