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What?
Government funded and administered health care systems being a form of risk pooling and insurance are not controversial ideas. These are standard definitions.
I'm not sure where you're getting these ideas. Why would taxpayer paid services not be a form of risk pooling? There are hundreds of countries around the world with government run health systems, or government funded and privately run systems, or private-public partnerships in various forms. Pooling taxpayer money to fund health care for those individuals unlucky enough to need it absolutely does make it insurance.
I recommend reading the Wikipedia pages on "universal health care" and "health insurance" if you'd like to start learning about these topics.
I'm an academic statistician who discusses risk and related concepts with experts every day...
And I do data analysis for a hospital chain (spent time today figuring out what percent of people in our hospital system are underinsured in different risk categories such as tobacco cigarette smokers and such). Your point about being a statistician means nothing.
So you can calculate p-values big whoop. You're absolutely not using terms the way the average person does in my day to day in industry and conflating them. I've been all over those Wikipedia pages plenty.
Try again.
Just curious, and I'll admit it's too my discredit that I'm even engaging, but why are you behaving this way?