single payer
One insurer nationwide
Single payer describes a healthcare system in which one entity—typically the government—pays for all medical costs, funded through taxes rather than private insurance.
The term appears almost exclusively in American political debates: Single payer would eliminate the need for employer-based coverage.
Advocates call it "Medicare for All"; critics call it socialized medicine.
- healthcareOrganized provision of treatment
- health careServices preventing and treating illness
- universalAffecting all equally
- Medicare for AllSingle-payer national health system
- insuranceContractual risk coverage
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- healthcare systemshospital system, public hospitals, health plan, HMO, provider network
- Health Activismhealth policy, health equity, healthcare access, patient rights, public health campaigns
- health policypublic health policy, health policy, healthcare policy, Affordable Care Act, health legislation
- healthcare accesshealth access, health coverage, universal coverage, uninsured, underinsured
- Policyeconomic policy, public policy, energy policy, tax policy, domestic policy
- Social Policysocial welfare, welfare reform, public assistance, social security, social insurance
single payerfee-for-service
Payment per procedure rendered
health savings accounts · insurance marketplace · managed care
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