It's not Canada. Though not the main point of the article, it's a good point to deliver, from FiveThirtyEight:
Socialized medicine is Great Britain, where the government owns the hospitals and pays the doctors. Socialized insurance is "single payer," e.g. Canada, where the government is the insurer.
Obama's preferred plan is a public insurance option (one of many "payers"). We're not remotely socialized, though the evidence suggests we'd be better off if we were closer to it.
No comments:
Post a Comment