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At a recent forum in Las Vegas, Nevada, sponsored by the National Association of Black Journalists, presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton discussed her perceptions of private health insurance, including whether or not she believes our healthcare should follow a socialist model.

As reported by the Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, Clinton was asked why she is "still insisting" on the implementation of a system of "socialized medicine" in the U.S. at a time when Canada and Britain have begun "pulling away" from such systems.

But in response, Clinton assured the audience that she doesn't support socialist medicine, and that her own model for a private health insurance plan would look more like those offered in Japan, Australia, and Canada.

Plans such as these offer basic healthcare needs to all citizens, so whether or not more advanced procedures would still need coverage is a question that hasn't been answered.

Shifting from a private health insurance system to a government subsidized version could be costly and time consuming. But, since our own system clearly isn't working, some kind of change is definitely on the horizon.