Socialism, Please, Does that Come With Change?

I have been reading quite a bit about the socialized medicine that the current administration is preparing to ram down our throats. I especially look forward to the time when my own family doctor retires, because he does not want to have to spend more time with paperwork than with patients. That was irony, for those of you who don't recognize it. You will be getting a lot of that now, you had better be prepared. One glaring irony is this: If this new socialized medicine is so dang fantastic, and the health care will be so much better, why not try it on a test group for two years and see how they like it, and if it's going to work for them. I'm thinking of the hundred brave and hearty soul in the Senate plus the two hundred and change in the Congress. Let their families and them try this brand new socialized medicine out and see how it works for them. Give them a couple of years to work all of the bugs out of it before they foist it on the rest of the country. I think that this is the best way for all of them to display 'servant leadership' as it's called. After spending months-if not years- running for office and telling me everything that they are going to do for me, this seems like the very least of those. They were all gung-ho to "fix" my health care, weren't they? Of course, they had no qualms about their own, did they? Who would, it's the best in the world, and for them, it is Scott free. This way, if they do have the committees to decide if I am worth keeping alive ( we used to call that euthanasia, but I'm sure there is a much friendlier, more democratic word for it now) I can actually have a say in some of these elected officials' health care. They sure want a big say in mine. I have had my experiences with socialized medicine. It was the US military and their system of see whichever Doctor is available. This was the system that completely missed the fact that my oldest son was deaf in his left ear. For five years, not one military health care provider caught it. Who did? A screening at his school, by a volunteer- was the first person who noticed that my son had a hearing problem. That is what is going to happen more and more as more people-especially uninvited guests -tax a system with fewer and fewer medical practitioners. The medical practitioners who stay in business are facing huge hurdles. many of them, like my own Doctor, will decide it isn't worth it anymore and simply quit. And companies that offer "medical coverage"? I imagine many of them will do what they company that cares-Walmart-has done. Many companies have started medical plans that have a five or ten thousand dollar deductible. Is that a figure you have sitting around in case there is a medical emergency? Well you better work on that, too. Socializing anything,especially medicine, is not the answer. I see more and more of a bumper sticker that says I'll keep my guns, my doctor and my freedoms you can keep the change. I couldn't say it any better, can you? Think about it, you'll thank me later.