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Phillip Longman's article praising the Veterans Administration in our January/February 2005 issue has recently received support from a study by the National Quality Research Center at the University of Michigan, comparing patients' ratings of care provided by the VA with that provided by private facilities. The VA got a rating of 83 on outpatient care compared to the private figure of 76. Even more impressive were the inpatient scores--76 for the private facilities, 84 for the VA. Another argument for socialized medicine socialized medicine, publicly administered system of national health care. The term is used to describe programs that range from government operation of medical facilities to national health-insurance plans. In 1948, Great Britain passed the National Health Service Act that provided free physician and hospital services for all citizens.!
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