Just because a hospital is non profit doesn't mean it's "socialized." A lot of places have county or state hospitals, but most non profit hospitals were origin

Just because a hospital is non profit doesn't mean it's "socialized." A lot of places have county or state hospitals, but most non profit hospitals were originally started by a religious or community organization, or a group of doctors. Medicine has a lot of things that make it naturally not work like a normal good or service market. To deal with some of these issues, it's a heavily regulated field, but many of these regulations also make it ripe for exploitation by for-profit entities.