The government won’t be paying for everyone’s health insurance, nor will the government hire our doctors and run our hospitals — that’s socialized medicine, and such is the way things operate in Britain. The government also has a role in defining the “essential benefits” that all insurance plans must offer. To answer his critics, President Obama is fond of pointing out that the government has previously handled a fair amount of health insurance in the form of programs like Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

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