single-payer
adjective
sin·gle-pay·er
ˈsiŋ-gəl-ˈpā-ər 
: of, relating to, or being a system in which health care providers are paid for their services by the government rather than by private insurers
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The analysis will also arrive about 10 years after Colorado voters decisively shot down Amendment 69, which would have created a single-payer health care system in the state.
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Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 14 May 2025
Past attempts to implement similar policies failed due to legal challenges and the complexity of U.S. drug pricing, which involves multiple private and public payers, unlike the single-payer systems in other countries.
—Steve Brozak, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Trump’s order takes aim in part at other countries, many of which have single-payer health systems with more leverage to negotiate down drug prices with manufacturers.
—Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 12 May 2025
Trainee doctors constitute 30% to 45% of the physician workforce in major teaching hospitals, part of a system that relies on resident and interns’ cheap labor to offset the low reimbursement rates set by the government’s single-payer National Health Insurance System.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 16 Apr. 2025
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Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 14 May 2025
Past attempts to implement similar policies failed due to legal challenges and the complexity of U.S. drug pricing, which involves multiple private and public payers, unlike the single-payer systems in other countries.
—Steve Brozak, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Trump’s order takes aim in part at other countries, many of which have single-payer health systems with more leverage to negotiate down drug prices with manufacturers.
—Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 12 May 2025
Trainee doctors constitute 30% to 45% of the physician workforce in major teaching hospitals, part of a system that relies on resident and interns’ cheap labor to offset the low reimbursement rates set by the government’s single-payer National Health Insurance System.
—Kayti Burt, Time, 16 Apr. 2025
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“Single-payer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/single-payer. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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