Private & Socialized Health Care

[gamerxr72]

Something has been bothering me about the discussions about private & socialized health care.

The argument about private health care is always bundled with the concept that it is capitalist in nature.

The argument about the aptly named socialized health care system is coupled with it being socialistic in nature.

The thing that is bothering me about the private health care being coupled with the idea that it is capitalist is that I don't believe that it is as capitalist as most people argue.

Doctors could choose not to participate in the socialized health system and setup their own private practice, could they not? So far as I am aware, doctors can choose not to accept government funding in the various socialized health care systems, and run their own practice apart from that system. Expand this concept and you have a private hospital.

If people really felt their services were worth what they are paying for them, would these same people not also continue to pay for them after the onset of socialized medicine? The system should be able to support itself if this is true.

However, it seems that it is not true. I believe the current system survives as a "no other options" system propped up with various existing social programs, which seems not so capitalist too me.