Is Obama’s Health Care Socialized Medicine?
let’s look at whether Barack Obama’s health care reform is truly Socialist, or qualifies as “socialized medicine.”
I defined socialism in my previous entry. It is, in its simplest definition, a state of Government where the means of Government as publicly owned. Publicly owned medicine could be declared “socialized medicine” (in the same way that public education can be called socialized education), but that raises the question of whether or not Obama’s health care reform is socialist.
Let’s have a quick look, shall we?
Here’s a brief summary of the changes the health care reform will offer (I finally did …
Socialized Medicine
The term “socialized medicine” – the fear factor.
What do American’s think when they hear the phrase “socialized medicine”? Communism! Communism strikes fear into the minds of most Westernized societies, believing that the labours of the hardest workers will benefit those who barely work at all, and all will lose any sense of control over their lives. “Socialized medicine” is a politically volatile label designed to frighten those who don’t understand its main purpose, which is that everyone should receive the health care they need, and no more, and no one should be plunged into poverty and ruin through healthcare …