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socialized medicine
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so·cial·ized medicine (ssh-lzd)
n.
A government-regulated system for providing health care for all by means of subsidies derived from taxation.


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Dennis Behreandt defends the American fee-for-service system, showing it to be far better than the socialized healthcare systems of other countries.
This doctrine is particularly pernicious when it is applied to matters of nutrition, since it literally gives the state control over the physical well-being of its subjects--particularly when such people live in countries blighted with socialized healthcare systems, as is uniformly the case in the EU.
 
 
 
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