Doug
Perhaps it would help if you considered "socialised" medicine as a very large HMO that delivers excellent service for a fraction of your cost.
On that basis you will understand why people in countries with such a HMO are so pleased with it.
Is that better?
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1