Having high-quality insurance doesn't really fix the issues with US healthcare; you can still go broke with decent insurance, and the billing only gets screwier the more middlemen are involved. (Congresscritters' real insurance is that if their particular claims were denied, it would be newsworthy.) We know that our healthcare system is messed-up, but we're wary of socialized medicine because we've seen failures everywhere that Washington has been involved so far. The middle-class expects a result not like some well-run Nordic paradise, but more like what we already have, only with more forms and longer waits.