Ok, that's our miscommunication. I'd say that government ownership is certainly government involvement but it's not at all the same as government regulation.

Ok, that's our miscommunication. I'd say that government ownership is certainly government involvement but it's not at all the same as government regulation. Even when the government has an agency running all the hospitals you can still have a more or less regulated healthcare system depending on how many rules parliament has passed about where you can build hospitals, how you can hire or fire doctors, etc. In the US hospitals are private but possibly because of that we have a ton of rules about who can become a doctor, how medicines are made, how close you can build one hospital to another, etc that are in excess of what you see in other countries. Also, while most countries have healthcare that is payed for by the government having the government run healthcare is also fairly uncommon. I know Canada, the UK, and Singapore have public provision but most countries have public payment and private provision.