re: #435 BryanS

Socialized medicine does not mean you have to directly employ the workers. In the soviet union—not intending to compare the health care plan to anything under that system—employees were hired by company managers who took orders from the central government. The House plan would entail the government setting prices and dictating the particulars of the products sold. So not fully socialist—we’ll call it socialist-light then.

Actually, that’s exactly what socialized medicine means. In the USSR everyone was a government employee so the division of labor didn’t matter a whole lot.

There’s socialized medicine in the UK and a few other countries but not in Canada and it’s never been proposed in the US. The most radical thing leftists ever wanted in the US was singer payer which still would not be socialized medicine.