The popular refrain of proponents of socialized medicine is "look to Canada" or "look to Europe."  But looking at those examples only confirms the deep faults of a government-dominated healthcare plan, as Clifford Asness writes in a report at the website stumblingontruth.com.  If you care at all about being informed about the healthcare debate, read through his report in its entirety.  You may then want to study the demographics of Sweden.  After that, read books on how modern American physicians practice medicine (a particularly good one is Complications by Atul Gawande).

American physicians operate with a degree of sovereignty that, while surely limited in our semi-free market healthcare system, is decidedly more extensive than that of any other group of physicians in the world.  Do we really want to make America a place that deemphasizes innovation (among pharmaceutical companies as well as among physicians) and imperils a close doctor-patient relationship in favor of a system that, when considered fairly, has only ever really worked for sparsely-populated Scandinavian countries?  I think not.  Regardless of your stance on this issue, please consult the literature that is out there to refine your arguments.  Healthcare in America is an issue that must be discussed, and not just in Congress.  But citizens must first draw on authoritative sources, so that what should be a principled, intellectual debate does not descend into a strictly emotional one.