Yet another failure for socialized medicine or anything else.

[Bob Butler 54]

(09-06-2018, 06:23 PM)Teejay Wrote: A political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
 
Therefore, this is why Bernie Sanders is not a Socialist, instead he is a Social Democrat. Denmark’s Prime Minister had to explain to the media that Bernie Sanders was wrong in saying Denmark is a Socialist Country. But Denmark is a Market Economy (although a huge welfare system) as opposed to a Socialist country. This is the case throughout the countries of Western Europe.
 
The question we need to ask is the following; is Health care part of the means of production, distribution and exchange?

The other question is whether healthcare is a human right.  It is listed in the UN Declaration of Human Rights, which the US signed (Eleanor Roosevelt?) and Congress ratified, which makes it theoretically rule of law.  And yet, some US conservatives deny human rights, equality and law, and think they can continue to make the old values dominant indefinitely.  I don't think so.

The two questions can have different answers.  Some things are part of the system of distribution, but are not rights.  You can have basic rights to health care, food, shelter and retirement without having a right to a yacht, yet all require that goods and services be produced, distributed and exchanged.

But there is also a question of word definition.  It means something different for a European to use the word 'socialist' than an American.  You have to watch the definition changes too.