Universal, National, Socialized, or communist...is there a difference?

In Michael Moore's movie "SICKO" a woman from Michigan travels to Canada for health care. Let me repeat this: A woman travels from America to Canada because health care is more affordable there. Canada has universal health care and is provided to all citizens. Something that the people here in the United States need. But what about the wait times? Surely everyone has seen the ad about the Canadian woman who was detained from care where she could have died. According to Verni Gurd, a Canadian resident and blogger at Trusted.MD if what a patient has is lifethreatening condition then the patient will recieve medical attention and the treatment they need immediately. Those who don't have something life-threatening, like a knee surgery, do have to wait for treatment but they still get it. Unlike here, if you do not have health insurance you don't get the treatment needed unless you pay for it out of your own pocket whereas there you don't have to worry about paying anything out of your own pocket.

So let's say people are ok with that, they can wait, they can learn to be patient, but what about the idea of a government run system? Does that mean it will be less effecient? Well...not necessarily, actually if money from taxes are going toward healthcare from the government then there would be a need for it to be more efficient so the loss of money would be limited unlike it is currently.

Ok ok...so what else is wrong with universal care that is making Americans so mad about health care reform? Could it just be the idea that the government seems to be taking over more and more of our lives? It does feel kind of communistic and with fears still lingering from the cold war many people are still hesitant to go towards a system that is even remotely similar to socialism. It is scary to have one body dictating the health of millions of people, I won't deny that. Faith in the government is weigning since the war across seas, so ofcourse it will cause controversy. Maybe the government needs to find a way to gain faith from its citizens and then more peoplemight come around to the idea of a government controlled health care system.