I have to disagree with every bit of this post. Socialized healthcare definitely results in a triage environment at the hospital. A lot of people get fobbed off with jury-rigged health solutions.
It's either that or insane taxes, kind of like Germany. They have great health care, but incredibly steep taxes.
I think that you're confusing modern triaging in medicine with socialized healthcare.
The point of the modern triaging is that they don't want to insert any type of faith-based care in there. They have no room for it.
For insurance reasons and probably lawsuit reasons because people being people will complain "why did this guy get a buddha statue and i can't get the koran"?
Insane taxes is a political catch phrase to divide people into republicans or democrats.
Taxes are insane in most of the modern world. The tradeoff is what do you get back.
In Germany they get free education, healthcare and 9 months off in vacation when a mother has a child.
In US the illusion is that you don't get taxed 50% but 30% on your check but then you'd have to pay more than the total sum of 50% to keep your other necessities going like healthcare, education and paid vacation days.
This is why i'm saying that this is a political argument not a logical argument.
People do politics differently in different regions.
To circle back to the OP, who very wisely mentioned that a healthy society who might be based on free healthcare produces a better society, the question of training of the whole medical industry came up on how to address the mental challenges of a population who is lost between triaging, finding alternatives cures on their own, and finding proper spiritual advice on their own.
