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Medical staff, academics and most professionals in the field and international bodies such as the WHO tend to avoid use of the term.

Outside the US, the terms most commonly used are universal health care or public health care.

According to health economist Uwe Reinhardt, " strictly speaking, the term ' socialized medicine ' should be reserved for health systems in which the government operates the production of health care and provides its financing.

" Still others say the term has no meaning at all.