“Socialized” Medicine, or “Socialized” Health Care, or other such terminology has been in common usage to refer to publicly funded medical insurance or treatment for at least three decades.
Whether or not changing the word from “socialized” to “socialist” would make the term more linguistically accurate could be a subject of interesting discussion and debate, but it is largely irrelevant.
I confess I haven’t following this issue for “three decades” or even three months, but it seems somewhat more than “irrelevant” to call it what it is.
I’m curious why you would think otherwise.