We can't afford it. Some people like Michael Moore say that we should just divert funding for the war toward Socialized Medicine, but the fact of the matter is is that we can't afford the war either. We are already borrowing money to finance a lot of the dumb programs already in place. Government spending is out of control, and we need to exercise budget restraint now, not consider new areas to increase spending.
BTW, Sin City was a great series of comics and I greatly identify with that scene you mentioned ... just for other reasons. Thanks for the visual, anyway.
I'm not attacking socialized medicine no matter how many times you accuse me of doing so. My votes are used to wipe the asses of the elite who are very connected to the current way of delivering health care in America. I find it shameful that the leading industrialized nation in the world leaves folks to die and suffer since it makes a few corporations more money that way.
BUT THERE'S NO SOLUTION IN AMERICA. Anyone who suggests implementing REAL single-payer socialized medicine is as demonized as anyone is who dares to suggest we stop paying Israel. As soon as say "socialized medicine", even the otherwise sane and well behaved folks start screaming "SOCIALIST PINKO COMMIE". You can't make any headway since Americans value profits over Human life. That's "Americans" -- people from all walks of life here in the US believe that the profit motive has supremacy over social decency.
Again, you keep thinking that reporting a fact is advocacy for that fact. That's wrong as is so self evident.
The movement for healthcare in America is twofold:
1. More profiteering from ignoring the problem and enforcing a profit-aligned status quo, thus more death and suffering. Within that environment, a tiny minority gets among the best healthcare to be found in the world.
2. More profiteering from implementing a Massachusetts Model of fooling the people with propaganda that only LOOKS LIKE socialized medicine. In reality, the state aligns completely with the insurance companies and some real rape of the payer occurs.
AGAIN, I'm only reporting the news. I don't want this form of healthcare for America. I'm only 1 of a few million Americans who truly want single-payer, government-run, socialized medicine! I'm OUTVOTED on this issue by a factor of 50 to 1. So, what do you think I ought to do, Sparky? Shoot the other 49?