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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.
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-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.
-[[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. <ref> [http://www.freemarketcure.com/singlepayermyths.php The Myths of Single-Payer Health Care] - [[David Hogberg]] </ref>
-Single-payer is popular among the political left in the United States.
-==See also==
-*[[Universal health care]]
-== References ==
-<references/>
-[[Category:Health promotion]]