Socialize it!

I am a big fan of socialized medicine, and cannot understand why other people do not feel the same way. I do know that there is a political philosophy where a big government that controls too many facets of an everyday person's life is not liked. I agree with that in theory to an extent. I don't see why the government should be spending my hard earned tax dollars (and everyone else's tax dollars) on things that don't work or programs that did work and now either don't or are useless. The first thing that comes to mind of wastes of tax dollars is the current war in Iraq, but I'll leave that alone. There are other things that should be fixed first, like farm subsidies. There was a period after World War II when the US government paid farmers more money for their crops, or paid them not to grow anything at all, to keep prices artificially high. This practice still goes on, and it doesn't seem right that here in the US we are growing food that we don't need, and protecting high prices on the food that is grown.
Back to my main topic: I don't understand why there is such a big outcry against socialized medicine from the common man. I would think that it would be a good idea if a person was able to walk into a hospital without having to show insurance cards, and wonder what the copay is, or what the deductible is, or wonder if the insurance is going to approve the visit at all. I would like to think that the government should provide the basic services, and health is a biggie. Without people, there is no America to protect. How can people engage in a war on terror if they have no insurance because they keep on raising the rates?
That might be a bit of a stretch, but I can't understand why so much money is going for national defense and so little is going for health care and research for potentially curing diseases. Oh,
that's right I do, special interests. It turns out that the manufacturing sector in this country has a lot of pull, and they get the tax breaks and the legislation. And then there is the pharmaceutical industry. I understand that they have to make money in order to run their businesses and to pay the inflated salaries of the CEOs but some people need drugs. We eliminated polio in the developed world, but it still exists in some countries in the world. There are AIDS patients who can't afford drugs because they had the bad luck to be born in Africa (sarcasm of course). They need drugs and the multi-billion dollar drug companies won't sell the drugs for cheap or allow generics to be made because of patents they hold, which keep the drugs out of the hands of the people who need them the most. In the US, the drug companies are allowed to charge whatever they like for their drugs, but in other countries (Canada, France, UK) the government refuses to pay over a certain amount and the companies always cave in. They then make up for their losses by charging us a shitload. It is very sickening.