Editing Socialized medicine (section)

===Quality of care===
Some in the U.S. claim that socialized medicine would reduce health care quality. The quantitative evidence for this claim is not clear. The WHO has used Disability Adjusted Life Expectancy (the number of years an average person can expect to live in good health) as a measure of a nation's health achievement, and has ranked its member nations by this measure.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.who.int/whr/2000/en/whr00_en.pdf |title=The World Health Report 2000: Health Systems: Improving Performance |access-date=July 22, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718144538/http://www.who.int/whr/2000/en/whr00_en.pdf |archive-date=July 18, 2011 |website=WHO}}</ref>  The U.S. ranking was 24th, worse than similar industrial countries with high public funding of health such as Canada (ranked 5th), the UK (12th), Sweden (4th), France (3rd) and Japan (1st). But the U.S. ranking was better than some other European countries such as Ireland, Denmark and Portugal, which came 27th, 28th and 29th respectively. Finland, with its relatively high death rate from guns and renowned high suicide rate came above the U.S. in 20th place. The British have a [[Care Quality Commission]] that commissions independent surveys of the quality of care given in its health institutions and these are publicly accessible over the internet.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nhssurveys.org|title=NHS Surveys :: Focused on patients' experience :: Home|website=www.nhssurveys.org|access-date=April 27, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180307201512/http://nhssurveys.org/|archive-date=March 7, 2018}}</ref> These determine whether health organizations are meeting public standards for quality set by government and allows regional comparisons. Whether these results indicate a better or worse situation to that in other countries such as the U.S. is hard to tell because these countries tend to lack a similar set of standards.