Socialized Medicine

Saw Michael Moore's documentary Sicko today. It was very interesting, suspiciously propaganda-like but nevertheless brings to light many facts about the non-universal and for-profit health care industry in the U.S. and compares to socialized health care system of other countries.

Socialized medicine or state medicine is a health care system which operates by means of government regulation and subsidies derived from taxation.

Nations listed in the movie that employ a socialized health care system are

• U.S.A. (limited and underfunded in the form of Medicare since 1960s and limited to a group in the form of Veterans Health Administration)
  
• Canada
• United Kingdom (since 1948)
  
• France
• Norway
• Cuba (since 1960s under Fidel Castro)
  
• Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility (joke of course)

According to Wikipedia, other nations that use (or have used) the system are

• Soviet Union (1920s)
• New Zealand since 1939
• China (1950s - 1970s)
• Israel since 1948
  
• Finland

Wonder what other major nations employ this system.