Guest view: Hopping down the bunny trail of socialized medicine If the so-called single-payer system is merely a pass-through method whereby the government makes no decisions whatsoever and will never ever make any healthcare decisions, then proponents could possibly make the case that their scheme isn’t socialism. However, if bureaucrats or politicians make the decisions about how much we spend or are involved with allocating resources, then the scheme is a government monopoly. That is socialism. |