With Hillary as the front runner, it looks like socialized medicine will once again come before congress in the near future. Let's hear the opposing view, but (here's the kicker,) you have to cite a legitimate reference to what you say. (No Wikipedia, Fox News, HMO publications...)

I'll give the main arguments first and shoot them down.

Red Point: Socialized medicine will cause higher taxes.
Fact: True. The average province's sales tax in Canada is around 9%, while in the USA it is 6%. (reference) That is a 3% difference, but they don't have to pay for health insurance. The average family pays $11,000 in health care every year. (Reference) For that 3% tax increase you would have to spend $400,000 on taxed items.

Red Point: America has too many people for Socialized medicine to work effectively.
Fact: China has universal health care

Red Point: Doctors in universal health care will have to endure massive pay cuts.
Fact: Doctors in the UK make the equivalent of a million dollars per year.

Red Point: Socialized medicine in the first step towards communism
Fact: Just because it's called socialized medicine, doesn't tie it to socialism. Both parliamentary systems (UK, Canada, Australia) and republic systems (France, Spain, Russia.) Although, yes, there is socialized medicine in communist countries such as Cuba and China.

Red Point: I don't care about all that, it just won't work in America anyway.
Fact: People over 65 already have it, it's called Medicare.


More in depth: http://www.balancedpolitics.org/univ...ealth_care.htm