Not to nit-pick but when you say socialized medicine, is the NHS your idea of that? I don't think the Canadian, German, Swiss system etc. would be considered "socialized medicine." I'm no expert but there seems to be a lot of nuance in health care policy with differences between the NHS-style system, single-payer, the swiss mandate system etc.

I've heard anecdotally that Europe developed socialized medicine because of its widespread support amongst religious institutions in the postwar political environment. If this is the case, why did American churches not have the same way?