This has been touched on once or twice here.
By "once or twice" I mean that about two thirds of the threads in this forum deal with socialized medicine in one way or another. It is definitely the second most flogged horse on SDN. It takes a back seat only to the dreaded, ongoing "MD vs. DO" debate and it is slightly ahead of the dreaded, ongoing "what are my chances" threads.
I don't want you to think I'm selling the great MD vs. DO debate short. It clear and away holds the title for biggest ongoing waste of time on SDN.