A couple of points, first I love hearing the waiting list argument because in essence you are saying that if everyone got to see a doctor when they needed to, there would be wait times. So your preference is that huge numbers of tge population be kept from seeing the doctor so that wait times are shorter. Don't you hear how weak that argument sounds? 
Secondly the the vast number of people in the US who look at the two choices 1. our current system where they will never see a doctor or 2. Socialized medicine where they will see a doctor a few months from now (by your estimate) which do you tgink they prefer?
My last point is that your claim that health INSURANCE companies are the driver of innovative new drugs is laughable and patently false. If you want to make the 'profit =innovation' argument (which I wouldn't agree with) then it would be the drug companies who need the freedom, not health insurance companies. Last I checked insurance giants are not the innovators of new medicines.