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If nations want to nationalize their stock market it's good monetary policy.

If nations want to nationalize healthcare it's an improper manipulation of free markets.

Simplification of above statements: $good = "logical monetary policy"; $bad = "pinkie commie manipulation of free markets";

if ($policy leads to higher prices for my portfolio) { $good } else { $bad }

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Totally correct. The intention is to serve the general interest (through Keynesian reasoning), but its immediate effect is to quite literally implement "socialism for the rich". You may call it capitalism, but it sure has nothing to do with free markets.

No thats only a valid criticism of the US debates

Indeed, almost every other western country has socialized healthcare. The US is only 300 million of them with particularly loud voices... and despite all of the rhetoric, they have even deeper pockets to pay for healthcare than most states with comparable tax regimes.

France, Japan, Germany, Spain, Canada, and Mexico don't have socialized health care. Of the western countries, it's mostly just Britain that has socialized health care.

Now a lot of those countries have universal access to health care. In fact, all of them do. Every developed nation except the USA does.

But only one major western nation does to health care what the Bank of Japan is doing to its stock market.

I'm going to go on a limb and say that entirely depends on your definition of socialized health care.

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