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.
