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single-payer [sing-guh l-pey-er] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN adjective noting or relating to a healthcare or health insurance system in which the government or a publicly owned and regulated agency pays all medical costs from a single fund. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of single-payer First recorded in 1985–90 Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for single-payer Contemporary Examples of single-payer
To make it even more bizarre, Shumlin has plans to turn Vermont into the only state with single-payer health insurance.
What the Hell Happened in Vermont?!
Stuart Stevens
November 13, 2014
“We had all the momentum going on the single-payer side, and it was really slowed by the Affordable Care Act,” she said.
Single Payer Is Getting a Second Life as Obamacare Frustration Peaks
David Freedlander
December 10, 2013
But those long wait times are not necessarily a by-product of their single-payer system.
Fact-Checking Suzanne Somers’s Claim That Obamacare is a Socialist Ponzi Scheme
Brandy Zadrozny
October 30, 2013
In Canada, healthcare is managed with a single-payer system.
Fact-Checking Suzanne Somers’s Claim That Obamacare is a Socialist Ponzi Scheme
Brandy Zadrozny
October 30, 2013
Schweitzer is a vocal advocate of a single-payer health care system.
Meet Brian Schweitzer, the ex-Montana Governor Who Wants to Replace Max Baucus in the Senate
David Frum
April 23, 2013
