Well, I'm from Denmark, and we do actually have socialized healthcare. We pay though our noses in taxes, and in return we get free healthcare and free education which in turn gives the state healthy, productive taxpayers, making our businesses able to compete with other countries', despite having generally very high wages, making the high taxes bearable. Of course, it's hard to get VERY rich in Denmark, where you actually pay a larger percentile in taxes if your incomes exceeds a certain amount, but still, our middle class has a higher standard of living than most of the world. We have comparatively fewer billionaires and fewer people living in cardboard boxes than the US.

My point is, that Winstonfield is right, there's no such thing as free healthcare, but concerning medical treatment, whom would you rather trust your money: the state, who has a interest in keeping you healthy and paying your taxes to keep your country's economy afloat, or corporations who have an interest in your money and will just move elsewhere if everybody's bankrupt?