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"Single Payer" refers to a health care system having only one payer, typically government, of all health care expenses. That payer would rely on tax revenues and perhaps some insurance premiums to fund its reimbursements and costs. | "Single Payer" refers to a health care system having only one payer, typically government, of all health care expenses. That payer would rely on tax revenues and perhaps some insurance premiums to fund its reimbursements and costs. | ||
| − | Switzerland, which has mandatory health insurance, rejected a proposal to adopt a Single Payer system on March 11, 2007.<ref>http://www.businessinsurance.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?newsId=9723</ref> 71% of voters opposed it. Switzerland | + | Switzerland, which has mandatory health insurance, rejected a proposal to adopt a Single Payer system on March 11, 2007.<ref>http://www.businessinsurance.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?newsId=9723</ref> 71% of voters opposed it. Switzerland currently has 87 different private health plans. |
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Revision as of 23:01, March 19, 2007
"Single Payer" refers to a health care system having only one payer, typically government, of all health care expenses. That payer would rely on tax revenues and perhaps some insurance premiums to fund its reimbursements and costs.
Switzerland, which has mandatory health insurance, rejected a proposal to adopt a Single Payer system on March 11, 2007.[1] 71% of voters opposed it. Switzerland currently has 87 different private health plans.