in 2008 i went to dr. for abdominal pain{emergecyroom} i was givin some tums and sent home, few days later i got a bill for 2000+ dollars, i saw a dr. for less then 15 min. i have no benes, tums didnt work, 2000 dollar bill scared me from going back to dr. but the pain was still there so i went to a clinc, they threw pain pills my way,and said nice day, after i went thru pain pills ,another dr told me to get xray,so i did,i didnt see anything out of the ordenary,but still had pain,jan 2009, hospitalized for 7 days,xrays,catscans,bloodtests,still nothing, feb2009, 33 days in hospital, stomach cancer took 100% of my stomach,my spleen,and 6 lymphnodes,2 surgeries,13 hours on the first one and 3 on the second,bloodtranfusions, and a feeding tube thats still in me today,im going thru radiation and kemo, but this is what i think about current healhcare system in the usa, hmo are nothing more then an insurance company,a company whoose real purpose is to keep profits high and exspenses low,and i see the only way of achiving this goal is to stop treating humans as humans and start treating them as objects,im in a position to see a transformation of the healtcare system from a bussness to a govt run medi pool, the current system didnt catch my cancer till a year later, im wondering if the socalized medicne would have done better or worse,since the govt. runs it i dont trust it. people say that if we create more hmos, then the influx of new copation will bring lower costs,i see it diffrenetly, i see it as more of the same,only worse because there are more of them{hmos} i applied for medical and they sent me alot of directories with drs that acceppted medicare, it took me more then an hour to find one that would, all the dr.s are running away from medical and i dont know why,i dont fully understand socolized medicine and was hoping someone from canada or someplace else can fill me in on what comming my way, will it be better for me, or worse? i feel the current system failed me because im poor,i hear alot about people coming down from canada to seek help here,is it really that bad?i dont know ,thats why im asking, the ceo of kiaser made millions of millions of dollars last year,i forget the sum, but i didnt forget the feeling of disgust i had for hmos,forgive my spelling.