Question

Which is the first country to completely socialized medicine, completely and to give its citizens a constitutional right to all health services?
A)U.K.
B)U.S.A.
C)Russia (U.S.S.R.)
D)India

Answer 1

Hint: In the United States, socialized medicine is a concept used to describe and discuss universal health care systems: medical and hospital care for everyone by government control of health care and tax-derived subsidies. Due to historically negative associations with socialism in American culture, the notion is usually used pejoratively in American political discourse.

Complete answer:
In the United States, the term was first widely used in opposition to President Harry S. Truman's health-care proposal in 1947 by advocates of the American Medical Association. It was used later on in opposition to Medicare. The Health Care Act has been characterized in terms of socialized medicine, but the purpose of the act is socialized insurance rather than government regulation of hospitals and other facilities as is common in other nations.

Socialization of pharmacy was attempted in Germany in 1883 with compulsory sickness insurance, followed by England and France. Russia, however, was the first to entirely socialize medicine and to extend all health care fundamental rights to its residents. This has since been attempted in several nations, including India (ESIS).

Hence, the correct answer is option (C)

Note: In more recent years, the word was taken up again in the 2008 U.S. presidential election by Republicans. Rudy Giuliani, the front runner for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, criticized the health care policies of Democratic presidential candidates in July 2007, one month after the release of Michael Moore's film Sicko, as socialized medicine that was European and socialist