>The problem is not only that the quality of healthcare will decline, and that costs will rise due to the huge government infrastructure, but that freedom overall will also decline as the government delves into more aspects of and control over the peoples' private lives. Welcome to SOCIALISM and COMMUNISM!

Nope, that's statism (aka etatism), which was sold as the only viable version of socialism throughout the Soviet bloc. Which is a fallacy; almost any other theory of socialism involves direct democracy. But you wouldn't have heard of that, because of the censorship.

And the communism as a system involves the dying off of the government, not its expansion. Same as in the first case.