Medicare is not a socialist program - socialist healthcare would mean the government is directly providing healthcare (like the NHS in the UK, or the VA).
Medicare is not a socialist program - socialist healthcare would mean the government is directly providing healthcare (like the NHS in the UK, or the VA).
No, I don't think it does. It might be a social program. It might be considered social welfare, or it might be any of a dozen other terms that might apply to government programs. But it isn't Socialist (note the capital). Socialism is the government controlling the means of production. Government simply paying for something isn't that.
Medicare is not a socialist program - socialist healthcare would mean the government is directly providing healthcare (like the NHS in the UK, or the VA).
You're spitting hairs. Medicare is paid for by the government, which makes it socialist.
No it is not socialist.
A primer:
https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/peacefield/6206c37b9d9e380022bed32f/is-it-fascism-is-it-socialism/
No, I don't think it does. It might be a social program. It might be considered social welfare, or it might be any of a dozen other terms that might apply to government programs. But it isn't Socialist (note the capital). Socialism is the government controlling the means of production. Government simply paying for something isn't that.
We provide the taxes for the government to pay. I do so every paycheck.
So, in your definition, socialism = everything paid for by the government?
That's the RW definition, except for the military of course. Though I suspect Bannon, et al would love a mercenary army composed of Flynns.