Having just spent 8 nites & 9 days, as a patient in a local hospital, I feel qualified to speak on at least MY exposure to government-run health care. Forgive me if this runs a little long.
My Pulmonologist gave me my admission papers, while I was at his office, Mon. morning. I then went back home and gathered my "necessaries", for, what I already knew, from past episodes, would be at least a week's stay.
I drove myself to admissions and took advantage of their valet parking(on my dime) and was greeted warmly. They use palm recognition gizmos to check you in, so that didn't take long. Then upstairs we went.
After a rather lenghty medical history interview, treatments/IV's were begun. A 500mg bag of one kind of antibiotic per day, a 50mg bag of another, a 40mg syringe of So-u-Medrol(a steroid)4x a day IV push, and nebulizer breathing treatments every 4 hrs. around the clock.
The treatment could not have been better. The people, from housekeeping up, could not have been better. I was treated no differently than a millionaire would have been. And, remember, I'm dependent on "the Government" for my health care. Medicare IS socialized medicine, whether you accept that label or not.
I accept it and I am grateful.
If you read all the way to here, thanks for doing so.
Mike(or as some think, Oldandintheway)