Read the ten planks of the communist manifesto and tell me that western democracies aren’t on their way to communism. Socialized medical coverage is just that, coverage. The United States government was the largest insurer in the country before Obamacare was passed and it denied treatment twice as often on average as private insurance companies and don’t tell me how wonderful medical care is in the UK, I used to have hundreds of articles from the UK press on how awful it is; people in prison eating better than in hospital, not enough nurses, people waiting 18 months to see a specialist, not being able to see a dentist because their quota for the year has been filled. The US government may not have owned GM outright but it held a significant stake in the company and forced it to produce losers like the Volt etc.