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To: TimF who wrote (10484)	2/1/2006 12:26:34 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541455

So if we had a government run health care system it would be wrong to call that "socialized health care"? Yes, that label is simply a term of political spin. Unless some sort of clear distinction is made between "socialized" and "socialistic." For instance, you may sometimes see a phrase in which corporations are accused of socializing their costs by depending on the public to pay for transportation infrastructure costs, worker training, and the like. But the reference in that phrase is not to "socialism" but to the "social" or, better put, to the public. For instance, much of the present discussion about American health care notes that domestic corporations would be much abler competitors if their health insurance costs were publicly funded, much as the Japanese are. And the phrase is sometimes used in that regard that it would "socialize" health care costs. But, again, that reference is not meant to characterize the health care cost system but rather to note that costs are transferred to the public at large, the "social."