Run Away Socialized Medicine is Coming!

Now that I have you attention I must tell you that one thing that has been annoying me lately is the Republicans referring to universal health care as socialized medicine. I don't understand why the republicans are being so simple and do not realize that universal health care and socialized medicine are not the same thing; they are different. Republicans act like capitalist can't support universal health care and that is just wrong, here is why.
I have not always been for universal health care it only a recent development for me. But in college when a professor made it very clear that it was not socialized medicine I started to look at it differently. I now see that it is something that we need is this country with 47 million Americans without insurance. I was browsing Slate today and came across an article on the subject this passage in particular stood out to me:
To some, the prospect that socialized medicine would still frighten anyone is absurd. Fears that "creeping socialism" might insidiously erode American freedoms are a relic of a distant age, like worries about fluoride in the water. Even so, the socialized medicine meme may have transcended the fevered ideological climate that spawned it. The words retain a talismanic power—a power that will soon be tested again.
Republicans seem to think that universal health care as socialized medicine will ruin America but that is not the case because UHC isn't socialized medicine and it will help save America. If America would implement UHC it would probably be most like the Canadian system where everything is private but the difference is the Canadian government pays for the health care; a single payer system. Of course taxes would be higher but to me that would be fine. As for the part about destroying America I am a capitalist and you know who else was: FDR. When FDR first introduced idea like this and others that help the poor and disadvantaged it was to save capitalism in America, which was not looked upon so greatly because of a little thing called the Great Depression. Taking care of ones citizens is not a socialist concept. It can be but it can also be something a capitalist country does. I just don't know how to convince Republicans of that. Oh and in the Seattle PI this weekend there was this great cartoon of a sick kid in bed with his mother saying you may be sick but President Bush says that better than being a socialist. Kinda funny. That is all.