Another Socialized Medicine Opinion

This was sent to me from a friend living in Europe:

"Just happened across your blog & as I don't want to sign up for yet another account -- just too many passwords & stuff to remember! I'll comment here. I totally agree with you. Especially after living in Europe where it is socialized medicine. There are a few countries that I hear do have great socialized med. like Denmark & the Nordic countries but their taxes are like 75-80%! Don't think American's would appreciate that either. Socialized med is not great. Either you don't have qualified/well-educated MD's & nurses or you have to wait FOREVER to get in to see the doctor. I hear horror stories of my friends who have lived in UK. One friend went to the MD to find out her 7 week old fetus did not have a heartbeat. They could not schedule her in for the D&C until 10 weeks (& they wanted to make sure she didn't have her dates wrong as to how old the fetus was - however why couldn't they have done that the following week?) So she had to go around for 3 weeks knowing her baby wasn't dead. Another friend had such severe pain from a herniated disk in her neck. At one point she could not even move her left arm. She has a 2 year old boy & couldn't help take care of him. She had to wait over 6 weeks with this pain before she was able to HARASS her way in to see a specialist (the normal wait to see the specialist is 6 months).  She called every day until they finally got her in. Then they told her they wouldn't do surgery - she needed to do therapy & take STRONG pain medicine for a year & then they'd re-examine her. It has now been a year. On strong pain meds she's doing a bit better, but by no means healed & waiting again to see the MD. "TIME" means nothing really here. Doctors/nurses take their time - as they are in no hurry. You have LONG waits at the doctor's office. Anyway I don't think socializing medicine is the right step. I do think health insurance is too high. I don't know what the best option would be, Ok my thoughts."