single-payer

[sing-guhl-pey-er]

adjective

1. noting or relating to a healthcare or health insurance system in which the government or a publicly owned and regulated agency pays all medical costs from a single fund.

Word History and Origins

Origin of single-payer¹

First recorded in 1985–90

Example Sentences

When the candidates were asked to raise their hands if they supported a single-payer healthcare system, Porter and Villaraigosa did not, while Becerra, Yee and Thurmond did.

From Los Angeles Times

On health care, Jenkins said she supports expanding the Affordable Care Act, Medicare and Medicaid, but stopped short of expressing support for a single-payer health care system or a public option.

From Salon

When asked whether she would support a single-payer system or public option in the United States, Bains said, “Universal health care is the dream that I hope one day becomes a reality, and I hope one day to definitely work on that.”

From Salon

Villegas did tell Salon that his platform would include support for major reform to the health care system in the Uited States, like a single-payer system, as well as reforms that could be implimented while workign towards that system.

From Salon

In his first ever campaign as a candidate, Mamdani narrowly unseated an incumbent Democratic assembly member with a platform emphasizing statewide rent control, fare-free transit, ending mass incarceration and establishing single-payer health care — essentially a state legislator's version of his mayoral platform.

From Salon