Like socialism, it doesn't work. You want a system like Medicaid? That's Government run and paid for. Look at the posts by people here at PsychCentral who live in England and Canada. They have huge, long waiting lists and get "generic" help whereas we more often can choose who we want to help us in our communities.

Everything costs money. The Government only has as much money as we pay taxes. If everyone is getting their bills paid by the Government, who's paying the Government's bills? It's very much like the Social Security problem, especially now with the Baby Boomers getting ready to swamp the system; we can't all get money from the "Government", we ARE the Government. There is no "Them" because "Them" is us!

Life is difficult, there are no guarantees.