socialized medicine

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of socialized medicine¹

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

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

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

From The Daily Beast

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

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

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

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