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  • I hope that I have figured out how to explain my idea.

    Universal healthcare does not require socialism to exist.

    However it could be the nucleus for socialism.

    Let’s start from a working universal healthcare system. Whatever government agency organizes it, with unlimited funding, they could start owning hospitals and employ doctors and nurses. Then they could own medical companies and the entire medical sector.

    If that is extended to food, housing and everything else, it would end up as the state running a socialist country because the state owns everything.

    A socialist revolution could substitute the need for unlimited funding.

    Why does that not work?













  • Under actual socialism, the state owns the means of production. There is no private sector to tax. There is no flow of revenue from independent businesses because those businesses no longer exist as independent entities. Your points about taxation, profit collection, and philanthropy only make sense inside a mixed economy, precisely the system you claim to be replacing.

    That’s your explanation. I quoted Wikipedia showing that there can be a flow of revenue. So why can’t socialism work like single payer healthcare?