National Health care: Yeah or Nay?

I'm a capitalist (I know it's obvious.), a fiscal conservative and a bit of a government hater, but this concept of "Nationalized health care" is growing on me. I have had family members suffer and die from various forms of cancer and others that made it through the ordeal of chemotherapy. I have seen homes sold to cover medical bills, people give up their homes to the state to qualify for Medicare or Medicaid (i don't know the difference), and others just give up on life just to speed up the dying process in order to "lessen" the burden on their families. Is this patriotism? Is this what we are asking or our fellow Americans? When your sick just lay down and die so we don't have to be burdened with your uselessness! When did sick people become enemy?

Isn't that nationalized health care already? People giving up on life, the pursuit of happiness, falling out of the productive machine which is America, and letting the government take care of the bill. People who don't have the means to support the recovery process of a serious illness become the responsibility of the government and in turn our responsibility. Our tax dollars are going to health care anyway. They're going to the medicare/medical system, the disability checks that could have been avoided, government aid given to family members who stay home and help there sick relatives, and all the other results of broken spirit.

Our country needs more working, able bodied, tax payers. How else are we going to pay for the deficit? We don't have enough IPODS/levi's/starbucks to sell to the world. Wouldn't national health care reduce gaps in the system that allow those who don't deserve the help and those that need it most? Kaiser and other HMO's are pitching preventative services to "get your money's worth", and if it works for profitable companies why can't it work for the country. Instead of thinking of profits as dollars earned we can change the paradigm to reflect the trillions of dollars that we can save. The profit of making otherwise damaged workers with short life spans into repaired, inspired, productive workers who can use their earnings to support other useful purposes i.e. retirement, social security, education.

I'm just saying!