‘Socialized medicine’ losing its stigma

Friday, March 7, 2008 | 3:00 p.m. CST; updated 2:59 a.m. CDT, Friday, July 18, 2008

The term “socialized medicine” may be losing its boogeyman status, according to a survey of voting-age adults. Long uttered in warnings against any sort of government involvement in health care, today the term has largely lost its scare power.

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