> Water, food, clothing, and shelter are all more important to people not dying in the streets than health care

And nearly all governments provide countless services from welfare, public housing, shelters, the foster care system, food stamps, etc for that as well.

Society has already made the decision about socialized healthcare; the only real question is how to implement it. The current implementation where you have socialized healthcare but deny it's existence is the worst possible and least efficient system.