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Re:Congress is set to ban most surprise medical bills by baryphonic on Monday December 21, 2020 @09:20PM (#25502163)
State control of the means of production is a common (though not unique) definition of socialism, is it not?
Re:Congress is set to ban most surprise medical bills by namdnay on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @02:59AM (#25504034)
I think that would be more a definition of communism than socialism?

But single-payer (and not single-provider) is not state control of the means of production. The means of "production" remain private, it's just that everyone is covered by basic state insurance.

Honestly, having lived and worked in several single-payer countries, it works really well - I'd even say that it works better than pure state-run systems like the UK