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I think you may be confusing universal healthcare with socialized medicine, it's a common mistake.
by droidist2 11y ago
I think you may be confusing universal healthcare with socialized medicine, it's a common mistake.
- rdancer 11y agoResidents pay tax (insurance) into a common pot, and get universal healthcare. The government pitches in with contributions from the general budget. How is that not socialized healthcare?
- droidist2 11y agoUniversal healthcare doesn't always work that way though, it's just basically the idea that every citizen is guaranteed some minimum standard of coverage. For example in Japan there's a mandate that all residents are required to have health insurance, but most people have it through their employers. It's not single payer or socialized healthcare. In many countries there's a mix of private and public and a portion of the population is covered by a system like you're talking about, like in the US with Medicare and Medicaid.