Joe Rogan Experience #2542 - Steve Hilton · Aired Aug 19, 2026
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Canada has a socialized medical system.
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Publicly funded, privately delivered. Canada's Medicare pays the bills through provincial insurance plans, but the doctors and most hospitals are not government owned and physicians largely run their own practices. Socialised medicine usually means the state employs the providers, which is closer to Britain's NHS than to Canada's system.
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Is it true that Canada has a socialized medical system?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. Publicly funded, privately delivered. Canada's Medicare pays the bills through provincial insurance plans, but the doctors and most hospitals are not government owned and physicians largely run their own practices. Joe Rogan said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2542 - Steve Hilton, aired Aug 19, 2026, at 1:27:38. The supporting source is canada.ca, linked below.
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