single-payer

American  

[sing-guhl-pey-er] / ˈsɪŋ gəlˈpeɪ ər /

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.

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Etymology

Origin of single-payer

First recorded in 1985–90

Example Sentences

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

According to a government website, tax-funded benefits for Danish citizens include paid parental leave that can total almost a full year, subsidized day care, a universal single-payer healthcare program with no copays except for prescriptions; dental care is typically provided by private plans.

From Los Angeles Times

Canada’s system is a single-payer program, with the government paying for most necessary care; households can buy private plans to cover services that aren’t part of the government system, such as vision and dental services and outpatient prescriptions.

From Los Angeles Times

To healthcare reformers such as single-payer advocates Adam Gaffney, David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler, the confessional by Einav and Finkelstein “may signal an encouraging shift in elite opinion, at least among economists,” as they wrote recently in the New York Review of Books.

From Los Angeles Times

Best of all, she and her husband are covered under South Korea’s single-payer national health insurance plan, and hospitals are close and affordable.

From Los Angeles Times