How to Use socialized medicine in a Sentence

socialized medicine

noun
  • The sacrifice of a small child on the altar of socialized medicine.
    — Fox News, 28 Apr. 2018
  • In socialized medicine the state controls and is all powerful.
    — Wesley J. Smith, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020
  • Their success predates, and may even explain, their enactment of socialized medicine.
    — William A. Estes, National Review, 28 June 2019
  • This was, along with our birthday, the 70th anniversary of socialized medicine in Britain.
    — Fox News, 8 July 2018
  • So, supporters of socialized medicine have cleared an important milestone.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 31 Aug. 2017
  • More than single payer, this is actually socialized medicine.
    — David Dayen, New Republic, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Proponents of socialized medicine condemn profit in health care, but a for-profit hospital does not have a financial interest in killing its patients.
    — Rupert Darwall, WSJ, 4 July 2018
  • The British experiment with socialized medicine has been a monumental failure.
    — Sally C. Pipes, Fortune, 10 July 2018
  • The specter of socialized medicine is anathema for an America that prides itself in rugged individualism.
    — Danielle Ofri, Slate Magazine, 2 Aug. 2017
  • Despite the apparent perception among Americans that most other countries have socialized medicine, many of them have a mix of private and public options.
    — Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Shulkin, like most veterans groups, preferred to take a gradual approach to reform; the hard-liners want rapid action to free our servicemen and women from the horrors of socialized medicine.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 28 Mar. 2018
  • As a Medicare-style program, single-payer is socialized medicine in the sense that the government, acting on behalf of society, takes responsibility for the health of all, but not in a strictly Marxist sense of the term.
    — Jay Cost, National Review, 18 Sep. 2017
  • India has a system of socialized medicine, and government hospitals and research institutions are largely undertaking all Covid-19 response efforts (private hospitals are slowly joining in to keep up with demand).
    — Shraddha Chakradhar, STAT, 27 Mar. 2020

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