Honestly, the chain-reaction idea just doesn’t hold up. A healthcare agency, even a universal one, isn’t a command hub for the rest of the economy. Its authority ends at healthcare. Funding something doesn’t mean owning it, and there’s no mechanism that lets a medical bureaucracy suddenly branch out into housing, farming, manufacturing, or anything else.

If the state wanted to own those sectors, it would have to pass explicit nationalization laws. That requires political will, not some automatic drift caused by covering everyone’s doctor visits. We’ve had universal care in plenty of countries for decades, and none of them spontaneously rolled into full state socialism because the health service existed.

And the “unlimited funding” premise doesn’t map to how governments work. Budgets are capped, audited, and fought over. You can’t build a whole-economic takeover on a resource stream that doesn’t actually exist.

So the short version: universal healthcare doesn’t function as a nucleus for socialism. It’s a public service. To move beyond that, you need intentional, large scale political action not administrative gravity.