i think you're missing the boat man....let me break it down for you....

scenario one....with current healthcare standards...

under EMTALA (look it up) you mother, regardless if she has insurance or the ability to pay a bill can go to an e.r.(or most private physicians that accept medicaid/medicare) for treatment, they find the lump she describes, treats her with a non surgical procedure, or lets say she has a mastectomy done....lets just say to the tune of $100k

the hospital writes off a portion as charity, sends the rest to collections and my insurance premiums go up b/c your mom cant pay for her medical care and the hospitals have to charge more to make up for that loss


scenario 2, and ill use canada as an example since thats what hillary wants to model us after, the average person pays around $1200 in taxes yearly for access to this high and mighty form of nationwide insurance (regardless of age)....so right off the bat with my family alone im spending in the area of $3600 (versus the $18xx or so i pay now) your mom, b/c shes apparently poor or jobless doesnt front anything (which is why they want socialized medicine to be manditory, so that i pay the portion that is unpaid by the jobless and worthless) so now she finds a lump, but the search is on for a speciliast who will see her....it takes 4-5 months to finally get an appointment, then another 4-5 months to have an appointment for an mri done, and by that time the cancer has spread and she dies (go to google and search "why socialized medicine doesnt work" and spend a day or 10 reading cases where people have died b/c hospitals are full and turn away patients and people die waiting on treatment)

so yes, the way the system is now, the minimal amount of my taxes that may or may not go to helping pay unpaid medical bills i would be happy to help front the bill to keep your mother alive (which just isn't true, there is no government bail out for hospitals will owed debts - thats what medicaid/medicare is for, if you cant afford it yourself you already get it free and i pay for that as it is)