Universal Healthcare vs Socialized Medicine, one definition

[BackfromRetirement]

Is Universal Healthcare the Same as Socialized Medicine?

[oramar]

I really wish everyone would read this. If they understood the terms they could stop parroting the stuff the insurance industry and the Republican party feed to them.

[anonymous1919, LPN]

People need to read this!!!!!!

[Penguin67]

That article was written during the last Presidential campaign in 2008, nearly two years ago. What was proposed at that time and what was recently passed by the legislators is not entirely represented by that article. (He information is dated. If you want to know what Washington passed and the terms, view the actual document online.

[Saysfaa]

I guess people who think a private name on the ownership papers is enough to make it not socialist regardless of who has the control of company might see a difference between "universal" and "socialist."

In the case of the recently passed health care bill, the private companies have such little control over who they do business with, what they cover, how they cover, and pricing that the system is socialist in effect even if it might not be in the strictest technical terms.

It seems the definition of "socialism" has changed over the years. Twenty years ago "communism" was government ownership and control of property, the means of production and the distribution of goods and services, "socialism" was private ownership and government, and "capitalism" was private ownership and control.

Now, googling the definition gives "socialism" as government ownership and control of production and distribution of good and a mishmash of definitions of "communism" from "government ownership and contol of production" to various ways of saying *single party government ownership and control* to *Marx/Leninism*