No. Socialized medicine means health care providers are employed by the government like they are in Britain. The Colorado proposal means most physicians will remain in private practice. There ae some exceptions. Currently some physicians work for Federally Qualified Community Health Centers and may choose to continue to work in that setting. The change will be that there will be only ONE payment source for the physician’s care, a Colorado enterprise owned by the people of Colorado, not a private commercial health insurance company. The Veteran’s medical care is an example of socialized medicine. The physicians who care for veterans are paid a salary by the federal government. Most, if not all, Americans would not consider the Veteran’s Medical services for our veterans to be “unamerican.”