Ok, so our health care system already works great and needs no fixing according to this opinion.

That's cool. My niece's husband decided to quit his job because he didn't like it (he's a twenty-something), my pregnant niece also had no job. They just had a baby boy, born with a heart defect. He is having surgery at six weeks old. The medical bill is astronomical as you can imagine. Since they don't have health insurance, the government and hospital will pay for it. So, does anyone really need to buy health insurance. I think not. It's a scam. We have the best health care in the world and we don't need insurance to access it.

Problem solved.

The options for health care are few and far inbetween. Employers give you little option and when they do, your locked in to WHATEVER THEY GIVE YOU. Outside of that you're limited to maybe, 5 or so stable major insurance companies that control the market and get govt subsidies (Humana, AETNA, Blue-Cross/Blue-Shield, Pacificare, etc), with some little ones here and there that get smudged out over time, because they can't compete with large subsidized conglomerates.

The system is already SOCIALIST, it's just Corporate socialist. You already lost your argument.

Don't know how "our health care" is surmising "SOCIALIST" from an, at best, Oligopolistic private HMO industry (Monopolistic, if Scott & White is the cheapest of ALL 2 of my choices!!)?!

It may be one of the 'polistics from:

1. a "deregulated" HMO industry - that is a TOTALITARIAN buyoff of politicians by the HMO industry for favorable regulation, or, more appropriately SEVERE lack of, or

2. a lack of enforcement of the Sherman Act (did I mention Totalitarianism? AH, yes, I see I did in 1.)

I see absolutely NO "community as a whole" control of the HMO industry, the very DEFINITION of Socialism. Not at all! I see the exact opposite!

Dictatorship? Well, maybe, loosely, given industry as a whole as the "dictator". Fascist? Closer still, given habeas corpus thrown out the window in Gitmo, Islamic racism since 9/11, private enterprise's "loss is public" while its "profit is private", etc. Whatever this control, it's FAR from Socialism for sure.

Need I say I'd greet Socialism in the HMO industry, and for that matter, EVERYWHERE ELSE, with open arms?!