socialized medicine

noun

any of various systems to provide the entire population with complete medical care through government subsidization and regularization of medical and health services.

First recorded in 1935–40

I mean, a boot-wearing, bomb-throwing Tea Party conservative born in the land of socialized medicine, Quebecois, and Howie Mandel?

Author and actress Suzanne Somers published a column on Monday claiming that Obamacare is “socialized medicine.”

An Internet meme imagined if Breaking Bad were set in Canada, which has socialized medicine.

After all, Singer is strongly in favor of gay marriage, and Adelson supports “socialized medicine.”

Several countries with socialized medicine have breast-cancer survival rates that are barely distinguishable from our own.

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