universal health care coverage

the United States remains the only significant industrialized country without universal health care (or a system of single-payer health care, under which government pays health care costs). Because the concept of universal health care coverage is poorly understood, it has been simple for opponents to inaccurately relabel it "socialized medicine," "nationalized medicine," "state medicine," or "nationalized medical insurance." (Ed Gillespie, former Republican National Committee chair, says in Winning Right, "We finally defeated Hillary-care by defining it as 'government-run health care.'") As a nation, we cannot make an informed decision about universal health care or a single-payer system unless citizens know what the terms mean. Spell it out.