Ronni, you don't seem to understand the idea of an insurance pool. If healthy people don't pay into the pool, then unhealthy people have to pay much more. Then when they lose their health as everyone does sooner or later, they expect others to pay, for their catastrophic care in the ER. Why? because they've lost their health and can't afford the high premiums resulting from many others refusing to enroll. Please tell me you understand this truly simple, factual, real-world situation.

In addition, most of our health care industry isn't socialized. The insurance bought on the ACA is private. The medical treatment is nearly 100% private. Our Medicare and Medicaid are "socialized" but we, the people, still pay for it.

"Socialized medicine" is a right-wing dog whistle and pejorative that's been around for the 50's; it's purely right-wing ideology, it's a phony meme, and its purpose is to keep medicine expensive and profits up for corporate executives and MD's.