single-payer
[sing-guh l-pey-er]
- 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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Origin of single-payer
First recorded in 1985–90
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To make it even more bizarre, Shumlin has plans to turn Vermont into the only state with single-payer health insurance.
“We had all the momentum going on the single-payer side, and it was really slowed by the Affordable Care Act,” she said.
Single Payer Is Getting a Second Life as Obamacare Frustration PeaksDavid Freedlander
December 10, 2013
But those long wait times are not necessarily a by-product of their single-payer system.
Fact-Checking Suzanne Somers’s Claim That Obamacare is a Socialist Ponzi SchemeBrandy Zadrozny
October 30, 2013
In Canada, healthcare is managed with a single-payer system.
Fact-Checking Suzanne Somers’s Claim That Obamacare is a Socialist Ponzi SchemeBrandy Zadrozny
October 30, 2013
Schweitzer is a vocal advocate of a single-payer health care system.
Meet Brian Schweitzer, the ex-Montana Governor Who Wants to Replace Max Baucus in the SenateDavid Frum
April 23, 2013