Original sentence: It can refer to any system of medical care that is publicly financed, government administered, or both.Socialized medicine or state medicine is a term primarily used in the United States to refer to publicly-funded health care.The term was coined in the U.as a pejorative by word association with socialism and continues to be used to evoke negative sentiment towards public control of the health care system in that country
Edited sentence: Socialized medicine or state medicine is any system of medical care that is publicly financed, government administered, or both.The term is used almost exclusively in the United States, where it often has a negative connotation by association with socialism