But then, in most places (I work for a government agency in a different country), everything in the government is public, if there's something off, it goes public very quick.

I admit we don't have secret tribunals and nothing even remotely close to that, so I guess that could change my view on things. But again, we don't make the laws, as a government agency, we still have to follow them. Yes, our salaries and jobs are pretty much guaranteed, but there's not a single day on the job that I don't have to review my work with citizens in mind, whereas I've seen similar jobs being done by a private company in the past where I was treated with very little respect to the law.

We also don't need to turn a profit, so we don't cut corners where a private entity most likely would. I'm not saying this system is perfect and it should be implemented across the board, but it does have a lot of good, and since a majority of countries in the world, except the US, is going this way, I'd even wager that it's considered by most as an improvement to the condition of citizens.

In regards to the state of the US's medical system, Obamacare is no short of a travesty, nothing close to socialism. The fact that the US government spends more on healthcare than almost any other government with universal healthcare keeps popping on Reddit and that's just nuts. Added with what Americans pay out of pocket for it, it adds up to being more than any other country in the world. Now, were you to pay exactly the same, but in taxes, for it to be free, nobody would go bankrupt over it, which is a big plus, but it most likely would go down, as it has everywhere else where it was implemented. Obamacare was just the worst possible way to do it, believe me, that's not what healthcare feels like.