Briefly describe the types of health care systems in Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom.

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Answer: Canada has a single-payer health care system, in which the government provides health insurance to all of the country's residents. Japan has a system of universal health insurance under which every resident of Japan is required to either enroll in a non-profit health insurance society or enroll in the health insurance program provided by the national government. The United Kingdom has socialized medicine, a system in which the government owns most of the hospitals and employs most of the doctors.

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