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Re:Covid-19 may have killed nearly 3M in India, far more tha... by merpnderp on Monday January 10, 2022 @08:52AM (#29874738)
A large subset of the US does have socialized medicine. Medicare (65 million people), Medicaid (75 million people), and the military health system (10 million people).

That’s nearly half the US population.

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Re:Covid-19 may have killed nearly 3M in India, far more tha... by burmanm on Monday January 10, 2022 @10:54AM (#29876700)
That insurance isn't socialized medicine. In Europe for example, the hospital is owned by the government/state/etc, the doctors are hired directly by the hospital, the medicine costs are directly set by the state and so on.

No private parties at all.

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Re:Covid-19 may have killed nearly 3M in India, far more tha... by triceratops on Monday January 10, 2022 @11:23AM (#29877175)
> In Europe for example, the hospital is owned by the government/state/etc,

Europe is a big place with many different types of systems. What you're describing sounds like the UK. But places like NL[1] or DE[2] are more like Medicare/aid for all (basic coverage) + Obamacare (mandatory private insurance, sometimes supplementary). The providers may be private practitioners.

NB: I'm not an expert in these systems so I may have gotten some details wrong. My main point is that "European healthcare" isn't a monolith and it's not all state-owned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_Netherlands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Germany

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