Just a note of caution for our USA friends here. More to do with language than services.

Socialism and social care are not seen as the same thing here in most of Europe. The British NHS (healthcare) system is free at point of care, the cost is (this year) equivalent to £1350 per head of population to run and the universal access makes it a social model, but I would be loathe to call it socialist. After all, the UK conservative party have run it, even under Thatcher, and its success and high quality outcomes mean that although governments tinker with it, (it is a political punchbag..) nobody sees the point in dismantling it.

Just that whenever I am in The USA, and somebody uses the word socialism, it seems to be a byword for communism. Here in The UK, big business wants in on health and social care, as a provider, rather than condemn it as a failed ideology.