We're afraid of it because Our Betters have run huge propaganda campaigns to make us afraid of it.

Hades, I don't like the idea of socialized anything myself, but when we in the You Ninety States (thanks for that term, by the way) pay more per capita for health care than where it IS socialized, and more and more of us aren't even covered at all, it's kind of hard to argue that it wouldn't be an improvement.