What I worry about is that if the govn't takes over health care and makes decisions on health care based on how much things cost, then nobody will get quality health care, least of all "old" people who are no longer useful and don't pay taxes anymore. With medicare, all doctors don't take it right now and most limit the number of medicare patients they will take because they can't afford to take what medicare pays.
My husband is retired military and we have Tricare, a government program. Many doctors refuse to take it because of the low amount it pays (which is the same as Medicare) and because of the paperwork horror of working with a government program.
Britain has nationalized health care but now they are limiting basic treatments like cortisone shots. If someone wants to purchase a high cost treatment, they are cut off from all treatment by the government. In Canada, the death rate from cancer is higher than in the US because they limit access to high cost cancer drugs and basic testing like colonoscopies.
Here's British MEP Daniel Hannan on YouTube talking about the British Nationalized health care and why the US should not go down
the same road.
It's a very important subject and people should try and learn more about it. Your tax dollars will pay for this program. It certainly won't be "free" health care if you have a job and pay taxes.