I would add that socialized health care is just one aspect that needs fixing.
The health delivery system itself is terribly broken. It seems to me that for every 1 person who we help, there are at least a dozen we harm by our current mix of factory approach, alive at all costs (to where we inflict massive suffering on the dying), and enabling of drama-queens and attention-seekers.
Had this discussion on the qt with a lab assistant just the other day. Forcing dying people awake at 5am, to have black, shriveled,, veinless arms and hands drawn by an exhausted, half-blind tech forced to work 12 hours straight, for "routine morning labs" because god-forbid they should be allowed to sleep peacefully through the night, wake at a normal hour, and be drawn by a phlebotomist who draws hundreds/day every day so really knows what they're doing. Or, god-forbid, should not be drawn at all because then we wouldn't be able to keep track of every metabolic process in their body as it attempts to shut down.
You could not pay me to enter a nursing home or hospital in old age. We are just milking them for all the money we can. 
And yes, for every actual emergency we get a half dozen or more drama queens in the ER because they threw up or have a head cold. We spend thousands and thousands of dollars running tests on them. Everything comes back negative/normal except their glucose is always high because they live on junk food. We call them frequent flyers because their histories are filled with repeat visits for ordinary aches and pains, 24-hour stomach bugs, etc. When they really need spiritual help and to stop trying to fill their emptiness with junk food, smoking and drinking.
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