[SeattleUte]

So waters is right, there's much that wouldn't change under "socialized medicine." Medaid and Medicare even use much the same billing coding systems as private insurers (this only adds efficiency, especially if the fed. gov. has gone to the trouble of developing the codes, etc.), and pay at similar rates. What we're really talking about is just the feds getting into our wallets for more money, partly to fund a new federal agency or huge expansion of the soc. sec. admin. Is that an argument for or against fed. intervention?