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Re:Covid-19 may have killed nearly 3M in India, far more tha... by rm_-rf_slash on Monday January 10, 2022 @08:36AM (#29874534)
I believe parent referred to Medicare as a subset in American health care that is socialized, to some degree.
Re:Covid-19 may have killed nearly 3M in India, far more tha... by krageon on Monday January 10, 2022 @09:27AM (#29875251)
I guess I am mostly alone in thinking that for a system to be socialised, it has to apply to everyone or almost everyone in a country equally. From the comments and the voting, I understand that having it apply to "almost" half the population is already socialised to this time slot :)
Re:Covid-19 may have killed nearly 3M in India, far more tha... by refurb on Monday January 10, 2022 @09:50AM (#29875627)
So by your definition much of Europe (which has a robust private healthcare system) isn’t socialized?
Re:Covid-19 may have killed nearly 3M in India, far more tha... by krageon on Monday January 10, 2022 @10:37AM (#29876458)
Europe isn't a country and doesn't have uniform policies in this way. It also doesn't have things as an entity (except for a selection of laws that it's members implement differently in most cases).

Because of those facts, I have trouble even formulating a response to your question - it doesn't make sense to me.

Re:Covid-19 may have killed nearly 3M in India, far more tha... by refurb on Monday January 10, 2022 @08:04PM (#29885651)
Much of Europe has a mix of public and private healthcare, hence by your argument, none of those countries have socialized medicine.