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12. Harvard School of Public Health and Harris

3. For a detailed critique of Obama's health care

Interactive, "Debating Health: Election 2008--

plan, see Michael D. Tanner, "A Fork in the Road:

Americans' Views on Socialized Medicine," http://

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Briefing Paper no. 104, July 29, 2008, http://www.

/Topline__Socialized_Med_Havard_Harris.pdf.

cato.org/pubs/bp/bp104.pdf.

These and all subsequent percentages are of those

4. Paul Steinhauser, "Giuliani Attacks Democratic

who claimed to know what socialized medicine

Health Plans as `Socialist'," CNN.com, July 31,

means.

2007, http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/

13. "What Is Socialized Medicine and Is It Relevant

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to Health Care Reform?"

5. Ibid., and Vin Suprynowicz, "Seizing Guns and

14. Dorn and Holahan, p. 1.

Socializing Medicine--Romney's a Republican?"

Las Vegas Review-Journal, August 26, 2007, http://

15. Marla Bizzle, Denise Fraga, Laurie Seremetis,

www.lvrj.com/opinion/9380526.html.

and Jeanne Lambrew, "The Specter of Socialized

Medicine: What Is It and Is It Invading Our Coun-

6. David Greenberg, "Who's Afraid of Socialized

try?" Center for American Progress, May 14, 2008,

Medicine? Two Dangerous Words that Kill Health-

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/

Care Reform," Slate.com, October 8, 2007, http://

05/socialized_medicine.html.

www.slate.com/id/2175477/.

16. "Clinton Confronts Critic."

7. Jacob S. Hacker, "Let's Try a Dose. We're Bound

to Feel Better," Washington Post, March 23, 2008. p.

17. Dorn and Holahan, p. 1.

B01, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/

content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032102743.

18. Rovner.

html.

19. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, "Defining Deviancy

8. Stan Dorn and John Holahan, "Are We Heading

Down," American Scholar (Winter 1993), http://www

toward Socialized Medicine?" Urban Institute, April

2.sunysuffolk.edu/formans/DefiningDeviancy.htm.

2008, p. 10, http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/

411648_socialized_medicine.pdf.

20. See Socialist International website, http://social

istinternational.org/; or "Socialist International,"

9. "What Is Socialized Medicine and Is It Relevant to

Wikipedia.org, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social

Health Care Reform?" Urban Institute forum, April

ist_International.

16, 2008, http://www.urban.org/Pressroom/other

events/socmed.cfm. For a transcript, see "What Is

21. U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,

Socialized Medicine and Is It Relevant to Health

"National Health Expenditure Projections 2007­

Care Reform," kaiser network.org, April 16, 2008,

2017," Table 3, p. 5, http://www.cms.hhs.gov/Nat

http://kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/uploaded_

ionalHealthExpendData/Downloads/proj2007.pdf.

files/041608_urban_socializedmed_transcript.pdf.

22. Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein,

10. Michael Cooper and Julie Bosman, "Parsing Mc-

"Paying for National Health Insurance--And Not

Cain on the Democrats' Health Plans," New York

Getting It," Health Affairs 21, no. 4 (July/August 2002):

Times, May 3, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008

88­98, http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content /

/05/03/us/politics/03check.html; Kevin Freking,

abstract/21/4/88; Jonathan Oberlander, "Are Ameri-

"Insurance Model Follows American Tradition,"

cans Closer than We Think to National Health In-

Boston Globe, May 12, 2008, http://www.boston.

surance?" Health Affairs 21, no. 4 (July/ August 2002):

com/news/education/higher/articles/2008/

103­104, http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/con

05/12/insurance_model_follows_american_tradi

tent/extract/21/4/103.

tion/; Julie Rovner, "Socialized Medicine Belittled

on Campaign Trail," NPR Morning Edition, De-

23. "What Is Socialized Medicine and Is It Relevant

cember 6, 2007, http://www.npr.org/templates/sto

to Health Care Reform?" p. 14.

ry/story.php?storyId=16962482.

24. Harvard School of Public Health and Harris

11. "Clinton Confronts Critic," CNN Video, Aug-

Interactive.

ust 9, 2007, http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video

/politics/2007/08/09/sot.clinton.medicare.cnn;

25. See, for example, Shirley Svorny, "Medical Li-

Patrick Healy, "A Testy Exchange on Health Care,"

censing: An Obstacle to Affordable, Quality Care,"

The Caucus (NewYorkTimes.com), August 9, 2007,

Cato Institute Policy Analysis no. 621, September

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/

17, 2008..

a-testy-exchange-on-health-care/.

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