The first ones to advocate socialized medicine are also the first ones to decry the shabby treatment vets get at veteran's hospitals (i.e. Walter Reed, which is now closed or is closing soon). What makes socialized medicine proponents think that the government would handle health care for the average citizen any differently or better than veteran's hospitals do.
They must be freaking nuts! They point out shabby treatment at government run veteran hospitals and then advocate more government controlled health care. Do they hypnotize the people whom they "sell" their garbage health care plan to? Because that's the only way I can see an average joe believing it.
Never misunderestimate the stupidity of some of the US electorate.
Part of the reason the push towards socialized medicine has been so successful is because since the failure of Hillarycare in the early 1990s, all the people have been hearing is how "bad" our system is and how much "better" a commie system would be. There has been no rebuttal from doctors, insurance companies or anyone else touting the complete superiority of the free market. As the old saying goes, if a lie gets repeated often enough, it becomes the truth.