In every country with socialized medicine, the result is rationed care with the elderly bearing the brunt of the rationing. Our grand experiment will not start out with rationed care and single payer health care but it will evolve into single payer within 5 to 10 years. The brutal effects of rationing will take some time to develop. The rats are hoping that it will be too late to change after reality sinks in.
I suspect that the American experiment with socialized medicine will turn out much worse than other countries. We have higher expectations about our health care system. When the hammer falls, there will populist solutions that make the situation even worse. The rats will try to stop you from paying for private health care and stop physicians from providing private health care services. Hopefully, private health care options will arise in other countries to circumvent these limitations. Every physician better learn to deal with the jack booted authority of the rats. Rats rule! No conservatives allowed or even conservative thoughts!
Socialized Medicine = politics determines who gets care instead of income.
We already have socialized medicine. When old whites had political power, the state allocated them medical care (while others were priced out).
Well, Obama doesn't need ol' whitey. The young and poor are his base, so the state will allocate the care to them now.