What it comes down to is this. Congress cannot mandate that you purchase insurance. Congress *can* see that the service is provided and tax you for it.
They don’t have to nationalize the medical profession. It would be done by nationalizing the Insurance industry.
Though I believe I am a strong conservative/libertarian, I do believe that this is the way it should be done.
I also believe I’m practical and that *this* government, in its current form and method of dysfunction brought on by ever increasing liberal-facism tendencies couldn’t possibly do this in a successful manner.
Are the "private" insurance companies allowed to have profits? Shareholders? How about we try something radical, like making people pay for their own health care with their own dollars? Price shop for the best care at the best price?
Wikipedia
The motives for nationalization are political as well as economic. It is a central theme of certain fascist, economic nationalist, populist and/or national liberation policies that industry should be owned by the state on behalf of the citizenry to allow for consolidation of resources and central planning or control for the purposes of economic development.
Nationalization was one of the major strategies advocated by socialists for transitioning to socialism. Socialist perspectives that favor nationalization are typically called state socialism. The goals of nationalization in this context were to dispossess large capitalists and redirect the profits from them to the public purse, as a precursor to the long-term goals of the establishment of worker-management and reorganizing production toward use.