Is Universal Health Care in United States needed, or just another Socialist ideal?

Universal health care is health care coverage for all eligible residents of a political region and often covers medical, dental and mental health care.Universal health care is implemented in all but one of the wealthy, industrialized countries, with the exception being the United States.
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Universal healthcare is not needed, nor is it being offerred. And for the record, it is also illegal. Roe v. Wade made it illegal. If the government cannot take over women's bodies (as banned by Roe v. Wade), then by the law of equality it cannot take over men's bodies either. But what Obama is offering is not Universal Health Care. It is not Nationalized Health Care. And whether you like Obama's plan or not (it is difficult to tell by your post whether you do or not), we need something changed. We constantly spend millions and billions of dollars trying to make up for the shortfall we keep getting in the private sector health insurance system. 53 million are not covered at all, even more are denied coverage at the time they need it because the health insurance companies don't want to pay. Not to attack them, because they are doing the logical thing. They are a business, and they only make money if they don't constantly pay it out to cover so many health costs. But the point is, even if their move is a logical one, it still leaves those who THOUGHT they were covered without a way to pay their healthcare costs. And those costs get passed on to the rest of us through higher costs for labs and tests and procedures, and the rest is passed on to the government anyway. We need to change quite a bit to deal with these flaws, before they take down the system. Whether it be Obama's plan or someone else's, status quo is no longer working.
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