There was an article today in the San Francisco Chronicle about a girl from England who the English doctors said could not eat. For the first seven years of her life she was fed through a tube. She was diagnosed with some kind of palsy where food went into her lungs instead of her stomach when she was an infant..
EXCEPT -- the diagnosis was WRONG. The English Socialized Doctors blew the diagnosis.
The parents, thinking that the daughter really did have the palsy, heard that Stanford had a cure for it. So they raised $20,000 for their kid to go to Stanford. The doctors at Stanford took a quick look at her and said "She is missing all the OTHER symptoms of palsy aside from food going into her lungs." Then they noticed that there was no food going into her lungs. They said "there is nothing wrong with your kid. She can eat whatever she wants." For the last two weeks, she's been eating Big Macs, and, to quote her, "hash browns with lots of grease".
I have heard similar malpractice stories from a great many countries and from hospital systems operating on a socialized clinic model here in the US. Kaiser is sued more than any health provider here in California. I get many refugees from socialized systems to insure.