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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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.
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Kayti Burt, Time, 16 Apr. 2025
Newsom characterized it as fulfilling his 2018 campaign promise for universal health care, although his precise pledge was to create a single-payer system similar to those in Western Europe and Canada.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025
Canada’s system is a single-payer program, with the government paying for most necessary care; households can buy private plans to cover services that aren’t part of the government system, such as vision and dental services and outpatient prescriptions.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
But some also argue that the tensions in today’s Democratic Party no longer center on the kinds of ideological clashes that characterized the 2020 primary race — left versus moderate and litmus tests on issues like single-payer health care.
—Reid J. Epstein, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2025
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Kayti Burt, Time, 16 Apr. 2025
Newsom characterized it as fulfilling his 2018 campaign promise for universal health care, although his precise pledge was to create a single-payer system similar to those in Western Europe and Canada.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2025
Canada’s system is a single-payer program, with the government paying for most necessary care; households can buy private plans to cover services that aren’t part of the government system, such as vision and dental services and outpatient prescriptions.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2025
But some also argue that the tensions in today’s Democratic Party no longer center on the kinds of ideological clashes that characterized the 2020 primary race — left versus moderate and litmus tests on issues like single-payer health care.
—Reid J. Epstein, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2025
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“Single-payer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/single-payer. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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