<unk>  is a term used in the United States to describe and discuss systems of universal health care—medical and hospital care for all by means of government regulation of health care and subsidies derived from taxation. Because of historically negative associations with socialism in American culture, the term is usually used pejoratively in American political discourse. The term was first widely used in the United States by advocates of the American Medical Association in opposition to President Harry S. Truman's 1947 health care initiative. It was later used in opposition to Medicare. The Affordable Care Act has been described in terms of<unk> , but the act's objective is rather<unk>  insurance, not government ownership of hospitals and other facilities as is common in other nations.
Socialized medicine
Terminology of alternative medicine
Prophetic medicine
Space medicine
Transgender health care
Nursing in Islam
Ethnomedicine
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