Socialized medicine isn't the problem: Robert Samuelson is wrong, says Dean Baker in Blog for OurFuture. "Most European countries have been willing to pay the taxes needed" to pay for their health ...

Progressive plans in the United States are synonymous with “European-style socialized medicine. Progressive plans vary in their degree of proposed health care reforms.

In these countries, medicine is almost 100 per cent socialized. Public services and health insurance make the doctors available to everybody, and the health standard is remarkably high.

Amid the partisan cavils against expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program and within the broader debate over health-care reform, free-market conservatives intone darkly about the ...

US medicine that Europe envies Published Jan. 8, 2010, 5:00 a.m. ET IT was an emergency for my family — but the real shock was how the American medical system astounded our European friends.

Fortunately, Europe's socialized medicine means that everyone — including visitors — is entitled to universal healthcare. ... and citizens of some countries, ...

It’s one of the most oft-repeated justifications for socialized medicine: Americans spend more money than other developed countries on health care, but don’t live as long. If we would just hop ...

Drug costs in several foreign countries are manipulated by heavy-handed government price caps. It’s a hallmark of socialized medicine in Europe as well as with our neighbors to the north.

Europeans are now learning some hard facts of life about socialized medicine: There’s no such thing as a free lunch. The question is whether Congress will learn from Europe’s mistakes as it takes the ...

Photo Credit: Peshkova/iStock Photo. In the debates we hear about the significance of universal healthcare, there is something frequently left out of the discussion.universal healthcare, there is ...