There have been many articles in the WSJ, explaining that socialized medicine in nothing but a triage system that uses delay or denial of service to hold down the costs. The EU members are having a problem now because citizens are seeking and recieving treatment in member states when the wait is too long at home, overloading member states and straining the medical budgets of the home states.
As I have mentioned many times, Dr. Dean instituted socialized medicine in VT and the same results are already apparent. My sister-in-law has been waiting for nine months for back surgery, and in the mean time the doctors just tell her to keep taking her morphine, despite the fact that she works in the school district and does in-home after school daycare. The doctors told her that they would worry about addiction after she has the surgery in December.
Holy Kamolie! Just great, so it's easy to not treat patients just by putting them on pain-killers or other drugs, while delaying actual treatment. Dear goodness, socialized medicine can't be allowed to happen in America.