Definition: A system of medical care regulated, controlled and financed by the government, in which the government assumes responsibility for the health needs of the population.
not for medical programs of individual states; compulsory system of personal medical care under control of a national government paying physicians out of public funds; compulsory: do not confuse with NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; specify country, even GREAT
Other names National Health Service, British; Socialized Medicine; Service, British National Health; Medicine, State; Medicine, Socialized; British National Health Service; British Health Service, National
