The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

by T.R. Reid

Most national health care systems are not “socialized.”As we’ll see, many foreign countries provide universal health care of high quality at reasonable cost using private doctors, private hospitals, and private insurance plans.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is one of the world’s purest models of socialized medicine at work.

In the Medicare system, covering about 44 million elderly or disabled Americans, the federal government makes the rules and pays the bills.And yet both of these “socialized”

health care systems are enormously popular with the people who use them and consistently rate high in su...

Beveridge Model—or “socialized medicine”—are both found in the Western Hemisphere: Cuba and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.