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I've experienced three systems. Here, Canada, and Finland. Canada was probably the most "socialist". Bureaucratic and a pita, but the same for everyone (well, in the two provinces I lived - much of the ID stuff is provincial). The most liberal is here. The must neo-liberal was Finland. They've outsourced much of the online security to third parties - banks and insurance companies. My partner had to pay an extra monthly fee on our bank account so she could make doctors appointments/get prescriptions online (I had access to private healthcare with my work. Which was a public sector employer. Living the American dream!). You need your government "person number" to do everything from buy a bus pass to get a mobile phone contract. It works fine if you're part of the system. I'm not sure what the real tangible benefits are though.
The best system of the three, if you're living on the margins of society, is here. I think that's important.