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emergency, the next stop is hospital. If you need hospital treatment, a general practitioner will normally arrange it for you" (National Health Service 2007). The PCTs are responsible for planning secondary care. They look at the health needs of the local community and develop plans to set priorities locally. They then decide which secondary care services to commission to meet people's needs and work closely with the providers of the secondary care services toagree about delivering those services. The NHS maybe the world's most sophisticated socialized medical system, but the modern world's first such system was established by the former Soviet Union in the 1920s. Whereas the NHS demonstrates that socialized medicine can exist within a capitalist economy, the failures of Soviet medicine demonstrated how corruption within a society can distort any system. China, Cuba, Sweden, and most of Scandinavia have successful and completely socialized health care systems. Life expectancy and infant mortality rates are two of the best indicators of overall health. Average life expectancy in Great Britain was 77.4 years in 1998; in comparison, life expectancy for the U.S. population reached 76.9 years in 2000. Infant mortality in Finland is below 4 percent; in the United States it is 7 percent. Health services are available to all in Finland,regardless of their financial situations. single-hier systems such as medicare are not socialized medicine. in socialized systems thegovernment owns, operates, and provides every aspect of the health care services. although it is true that in a single-hier system the government collects and disperses the capital for services rendered, its decision-making responsibilities end there. Even without socialized medicine's additional powers to limit corporate profits, studies by the U.S. General Accounting Office and the Congressional Budget Office show that single-hier universal health care would save $100 to $200 billion dollars per year while covering every currently uninsured American and increasing health care benefits to those already insured (U.S. Government Accounting Office 1991; Congressional Budget Office 1993). Outside of the United States, health care in the twenty-first century is increasingly seen as a basic human right that deserves to be protected and provided at an affordable hi to all citizens of civilized societies. this idea—that medical procedures and health care in general should not be subject to or motivated by market forces— is one that, in the late twentieth century, evolved back into favor only after repeated experiments with the capitalization of health care led to systematic and catastrophic failures, resulting in grotesqueprofits on the supply side contrasted with the suffering of millions of disenfranchised patients on the demandside of the equation. Socialized medicine is an egalitarian system that addresses these iniquities. medicine, sociology of A field of sociology that focuses on medicine as a set of ideas and practices. However, exact delineation of the field is problematic. In the first place, there is disquiet about identifying a field of sociology in terms of its relation to another profession. This issue has often been raised by drawing a contrast between sociology in medicine and thesociology of medicine. Sociology in medicine, it is argued, workswithin the constraints and parameters of medicine, accepting its objectives and priorities. Sociology of medicine adopts a more detached, critical approach, in which the sociological enterprise has .