Bring on Socialized Medicine!

"Child molester" is the only two words in the English language that stir more disgust, and dread than "socialized medicine." Presidents FDR, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, and Bill Clinton were battered into submission with the two words when they had the temerity to propose universal public health care, or simply in the case of Clinton, measured health care reform. President Obama is getting the same socialized medicine smear treatment for suggesting a tepid and cautious public health option that will not even kick in unless private health insurers fail to reach a goal for health care affordability and availability that's set higher than a Challenger orbit.

But loud screeches about the alleged dire peril of socialized medicine have dumped nearly 50 million persons in the uninsured health care bin, pushed growing legions of the middle class into bankruptcy, foreclosures, and near destitution trying to pay for treatment for acute ailments, forced the shuttering of countless public and private hospitals, reaped king's ransoms for private health insurers, and made the U.S. the health laughingstock of the industrialized world. Call it socialized medicine if you will but if this will end America's long running health care travesty, than bring it on.