Definition of "socialized medicine" []

• A government-regulated system for providing health care for all by means of subsidies derived from taxation. (noun)

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• "And in Florida, it was reported to me by several associates, that the doctors agreed that they would devote the first three minutes of every patient call to talking against socialized medicine and Claude Pepper."
• "They shuddered at the word socialism, and even socialized medicine seemed to them something tinged with evil."