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| − | '''Single Payer''' refers to a [[health care]] system having only one payer, typically a [[socialism|socialistic]] [[big government]] [[Welfare state]] - [[Nanny state]], | + | '''Single Payer''' refers to a [[health care]] system having only one payer of all health care expenses, typically a [[socialism|socialistic]] [[big government]] [[Welfare state]] - [[Nanny state]], . 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 currently has 87 different private health plans. | [[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. | ||
Revision as of 22:49, August 7, 2015
Single Payer refers to a health care system having only one payer of all health care expenses, typically a socialistic big government Welfare state - Nanny state, . 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.
At the first 2016 presidential debate, Donald Trump declared the following:[2]
| “ | As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland. It could have worked in a different age, which is the age you're talking about here. | ” |
To which Rand Paul responded:
| “ | the Republican Party's been fighting against a single-payer system ... for a decade. So I think you're on the wrong side of this if you're still arguing for a single-payer system. | ” |
David Hogberg wrote:
- A single-payer health care system is one in which a single-entity -- the government -- collects almost all of the revenue for and pays almost all of the bills for the health care system. In most single-payer systems only a small percentage of health care expenses are paid for with private funds. Countries that have a single-payer system include Australia, Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom. [3]
Single-payer is popular among the political left in the United States.