Quote: People get worried when someone tosses the "socialist" label on it... Regardless of how much sense it makes.
Define socialist. If politicians and government bureaucrats running the healthcare system and setting all the rules for your healthcare doesn't qualify I'm not sure what would.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.