Technically, a single-payer system is a system with, well, a single payer.
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In a pure single-payer system, by contrast, there's just one payer: the government.
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These folks work for the American tax payer, they were paid by the American tax payer.
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The core feature of a single-payer system is, well, that there's only a single payer.
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France is a multi-payer systems, with several rather than one tax-funded payer funding care.
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Last month, Healthcare NOW and Labor Campaign for Single Payer held a single-payer strategy conference in Minneapolis, attended by dozens of unions and single-payer advocacy groups from around the country.
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But it's arguably a more plausible path to single-payer than passing single-payer in one go.
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"Because there's no primary payer, the group plan won't pay, because it's a secondary payer," Omdahl said.
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Liberals bemoan that it wasn't single-payer; it lacked a public option, or even all-payer rate setting.
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" "I can tell you that single payer and the discussion surrounding single payer will be an ongoing theme in 2018.
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SMITH: And a single payer system -- yes, and a single payer system will -- would wind up change in that cost.
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This is not what health wonks would call a single-payer system; instead, they fall into the multi-payer category.
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Additionally, several political candidates are running on a single-payer platform It sounds great, but what exactly is single-payer?
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The secondary payer concept is common in health care—Medicare is by law a secondary payer to commercial insurance, and Medicaid is legally the "payer of last resort" to all other insurance programs—but there is no provision in the CHIP law that enables it to be a secondary payer to other insurance programs.
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Advocates of single-payer argue that a single-payer system would be better than America's health care system, and they're right.
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Advocates of single-payer health care, myself included, have supported different forms of single-payer health care and Medicare for all.
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Remember Vermont tried to do single-payer, Colorado tried to do single-payer in a referendum, and these did not succeed.
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Consider the U.K. and its single payer National Health Service that the British and all single payer advocates are so proud of.
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And health care watchers kept a close eye on California, where single-payer was a notable issue... A win for single payer?
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Mr. Z was a slow-payer, and sometimes a no-payer, and farms and small businesses like the McKathans paid for it.
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"If you sacrifice the efficiencies of single-payer, I'm not sure we can afford to deliver the benefits of single-payer," he said.
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He supports single-payer healthcare, while Murphy, who says he supports single-payer in principle, is focused on defending the Affordable Care Act.
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But even if Joe Biden, the frontrunner and leading anti-single-payer candidate, wins, the single-payer movement will have done its job.
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The debate has gotten heated at times, with single-payer skeptics accusing single-payer campaigners of having ideas that are both overly ambitious and half-baked, and single-payer fans arguing that any other healthcare reform would fail to fix the system's problems.
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Clinton is the candidate who doesn't want to alienate single-payer supporters, and Sanders is the candidate who actually supports single-payer health care.
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Former-VEEP calls for Single Payer Health Care: On Tuesday, former vice president and presidential nominee Al Gore called for single-payer health care.
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Single-payer advocates argue that the simplicity of a single, government payer would reduce paperwork and office staff, and that is almost certainly true.
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Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), who sponsored a pure single-payer bill in 28500, urged us on several occasions in subsequent years to rally the support that could make single payer viable in the Senate, and in 6900 endorsed a single-payer ballot initiative in Massachusetts.
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Which Democrats support single payer health care The single-payer bill introduced last week by Jayapal has 104 cosponsors among voting members of the House.
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They are already regrouping around efforts to move closer to a single-payer system: in the full-throated support for single-payer health care now offered by prominent liberal politicians who aren't named Bernie Sanders; in the push for state-based single-payer health care; and in the embrace of not-quite-single-payer systems by influential left-leaning policy shops like the Center for American Progress.
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In the past few years, Vermont saw its effort to pass single-payer collapse and 270 percent of Coloradans voted down a single-payer ballot initiative.
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The single payer 'Medicare for All' would be run by one public system rather than multi payer, which offers coverage through multiple private or public sources.
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Single-payer isn't just being discussed in liberal enclaves of the country like California, where a single-payer measure recently fell short in the state Assembly.
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All-payer rate setting essentially shares the same goals of single-payer: It aims to increase efficiency and reduce insurer overhead in the health care system.
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Buttigieg has endorsed a single-payer health care system, although he proposes starting out with a transition policy like a public option or all-payer rate setting.
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I asked Marchildon how he felt about this comparison: Is it fair to compare pre-single-payer America to the pre-single-payer Canada of the 1960s?
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Health care: Supports single-payer health care, but wants to transition to the model via an all-payer rate-setting, which would not eliminate private insurance companies.
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There is no better option than the A.C.A. for fixing health care in America besides a single payer plan, and Republicans are not interested in single-payer.
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As one House Democrat who supports single-payer explained to me, most of his more left-wing colleagues are aware that foreign single-payer health care systems are cheaper overall than the American private one, and infer from that the idea that paying for single-payer would be easy.
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Par exemple, cela veut dire que vous pourrez payer à l'aide de votre carte enregistrée dans l'application Wallet au moment de payer dans l'application de Deliveroo ou Cheerz.
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Calls for single-payer invariably provoke concern over its practicality and expense, and it is true that single-payer proposals have to account for a drastic transition process.
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Single-payer requires taxes the middle class is going to pay, and that makes single-payer a hard sell politically, even if it benefits the middle class ultimately.
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But the single-payer section has its own baffling whoppers, like when the CEA argues that single-payer forces seniors to endure long wait times for doctor's appointments.
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I was wondering if you have given any thought to single-payer — there are a couple of bills floating around Congress about single-payer and a public option.
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A single-payer system is socialised health insurance, not "socialised medicine": in many countries with single-payer systems, such as Canada, most medical providers are private, for-profit businesses.
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This is also called "single-payer" or "Medicare for all," and the payer would be the government instead of any of the dozens of insurance companies that exist now.
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Germany actually isn't traditionally thought of as a single-payer system; most health experts would consider it a multi-payer system, because you have multiple, competing health insurance plans.
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The true right-wing position is free for all, all corporate, and the compromise position is a single-payer system where you have private doctors but a public payer.
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The term for regulating the fees charged by doctors, hospitals, and others in a multi-payer setting is called all-payer rate setting, and it's a pretty good idea.
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Nor is single-payer health insurance synonymous with "European health care": not just because insurance is not care, but because much of Europe does not have a single-payer system.
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It's everything critics fear a single-payer plan would be, and it lacks the kind of engagement with the problems of single-payer health systems necessary to win over skeptics.
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And finally, we touched on one of the less discussed challenges of a single-payer system: what the government could do for rural hospitals that feel a pinch under single-payer.
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"It's partly because the party that used to be the proponent of single-payer has been largely captured by the interests who think single-payer will destroy their profits," he explained.
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Meantime, Democrats have revived the health reform debate over single-payer Medicare For All, nine years after investors were rattled by the prospect of single-payer health care under the ACA.
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These small group plans automatically become what's called the secondary payer of health claims when a person turns 65, meaning that Medicare becomes the primary payer of claims, and is thus required.
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Reproductive rights advocates have played hardball on single payer, opposing plans that exclude reproductive care, and have successfully made abortion access a core tenant of the nation's highest profile single payer model.
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Sanders has long been a champion of single-payer healthcare — which I personally support — but for obvious political reasons in a lobbyist-dominated Washington, single payer is highly unlikely to happen soon.
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A sign times are changing: A Republican health care lobbyist called me recently to ask whether all-payer rate setting would be a better alternative to single payer, by causing less disruption.
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They argue that you don't need to go as far as a single-payer system — that with some kind of all-payer rate setting, you could achieve significant savings on administrative spending.
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One question you might raise is whether any of this counts as "closer" to single-payer, or whether single-payer is a binary policy that's either 100 percent enacted or zero percent enacted.
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Reality check: Single payer is popular, but polling today doesn't tell us much about where the public will be if there is a national debate about actual single-payer legislation in the Congress.
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I know that single-payer is all the rage, but we've got 10 Democratic senators in states that are very fond of Trump who will only hear "socialism" when single-payer is discussed.
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Universal health care as a concept polls pretty well with the general public, and it's possible to design a single-payer or de facto single-payer plan that doesn't require massive tax increases.
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The first problem for any single-payer push would be political support: Mr. Shumlin campaigned on a promise to build a single-payer system in Vermont, but the public never quite bought in.
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Public opinion on specific issues like single-payer is quite malleable, and as Vox's Dylan Scott notes, support for single-payer falls in polls after respondents are informed of common criticisms of it.
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The chart below shows how buzz around Sanders's single-payer plan died down and coverage of Graham-Cassidy ramped up: But on Fox News, the story is still very much about single-payer.
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The thing about saving money by having a single health care payer squeeze providers on reimbursement rates is that adopting a single-payer structure is neither necessary nor sufficient to achieve the gains.
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We do not circumvent payer prior authorization rules or reimbursement.
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A single payer system drives down the cost of healthcare.
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Single payer healthcare in New York isn't a pipe dream.
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Medicare would become the single payer of all insurance claims.
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Trump says Australia's (single payer) health care system is better.
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A single payer would rein in the medical industrial complex.
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Single payer has been a Democratic pipe dream for generations.
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"We had no tax payer funded dollars," he told CNBC.
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He's talked about universal, single payer health care for everybody.
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Only one other state — Maryland — has an all-payer system.
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There are absolutely health care providers who support single payer.
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"The simplest way is to have single payer," he said.
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Single payer national healthcare, versus health care insurance for all.
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Though Warren said she would still get to single payer within four years, her idea to require two difficult votes on an already treacherous issue was seen by some single-payer advocates as unrealistic.
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Liberals generally agree that a single-payer system (or a multi-payer system with a fully subsidized government option) would be preferable in the abstract to the heavily balkanized health care system we have today.
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"I think it's great what he's doing and I respect the fact that he supports single-payer but he's not using his support for single payer to weaken the ACA right now," she told CNN.
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And this is where Pence's comment about Charlie Gard is deeply flawed, not only because it unfairly attacks single-payer systems, but also because it conflates single-payer systems with judicial rulings concerning patients' rights.
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Debate moderators could inquire as to how he plans to get the votes for single-payer, or get even more juicily specific: How would his single-payer plan determine which drugs and procedures are covered?
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That's why congressional Democrats' single-payer bills would force hundreds of millions of Americans who get their insurance from Medicare or through their employer to have to switch over to the new government single-payer.
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Both Clinton & Sanders would prefer single-payer, neither can achieve it.
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And that's why her attacks on single-payer have fallen short.
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Before their 2018 marriage, Buttigieg filed as a single tax payer.
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The single-payer debate has highlighted divides within the Democratic conference.
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And while Clinton's attacks on Sanders's single-payer plan have strained
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"I don't mind a single-payer system," Hickenlooper told BuzzFeed News.
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In our state, we have moved to an all-payer system.
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Does the country need to move toward a single payer system?
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Colorado will attempt to install a single-payer health care system.
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"We have to look harder at a single-payer system," Rep.
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We talk about single-payer in part because Bernie's proposing it.
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And so Medicaid is the dominant payer, it's the dominant regulator.
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But he also declared his belief in single-payer health care.
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Allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices is progress toward single-payer.
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Adding a public option to Obamacare is progress toward single-payer.
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Bernie Sanders' bill to establish a single-payer health care system.
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Single payer is a big idea many Democrats can rally around.
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The Vermont senator wants a national, single-payer health insurance system.
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"Single-payer is just too hard to pay for," predicts Rivlin.
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That's what makes the idea of single payer so much scarier.
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Ricardo Lara (D-Calif.) advocating a single payer system for California.
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There's a lot of ways to write a single payer plan.
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For Sanders: • Parrying criticism of his single-payer health care proposal.
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It's probably unwise to finance single-payer through the income tax.
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Is single-payer the policy answer to more and better coverage?
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Now is the time to do the same for single-payer.
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Single payer is many things, but above all it is cheap.
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Republican sabotage has only accelerated support for a single-payer approach.
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Some polls have shown majorities in favor of single-payer healthcare.
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"I am very much for a single-payer system," Keirstead said.
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Over 100 House Democrats this week introduced a single-payer bill.
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Nearly all have embraced some form of single-payer health care.
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There are clear losers from the introduction of single-payer plans.
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Yes, recent polls seem to indicate rising support for single payer.
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And for similar reasons, California recently shelved a single-payer proposal.
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If Trump destroys healthcare then single-payer will grow in popularity.
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Bernie Sanders proposed a single-payer plan during his presidential run.
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Poll after poll shows Americans long for a single-payer plan.
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Advocates of the single-payer system are up against formidable opponents.
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For Sanders, then, it seems to be single-payer or bust.
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We're getting into a new stage of the single-payer discussion.
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The chart shows the arguments that increase support for single-payer.
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That is what it takes to realize the single-payer dream.
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California may try to create a statewide single payer healthcare system.
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One is an all-payer system like that seen in Maryland.
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Days later, she called for single-payer for the first time.
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And in September, she signed onto Mr. Sanders's single-payer legislation.
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The Netherlands, a net payer, is not impressed by this idea.
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Single-payer sounds too good to be true because it is!
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Instead of single-payer or the public option, they got Healthcare.gov.
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Does single-payer work well in the countries that have it?
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Could the United States keep its distinctive advantages under single-payer?
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In Switzerland, there is nothing like single-payer or socialized medicine.
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A single-payer system simplifies who is responsible for covering costs.
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When she improvised, she tripped, most glaringly over single-payer healthcare.
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Single-payer supporters who have endorsed Sanders, in particular, are skeptical.
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Do you think California should move to a single-payer system?
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"I could get behind a single-payer healthcare plan," he said.
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Universal single-payer health care means comprehensive coverage for all Americans.
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That would make it less disruptive than a single-payer plan.
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One is an all-payer system, like that seen in Maryland.
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Which helps explain why polling experts express caution on single-payer.
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Single-payer would immediately raise myriad intricate and divisive transition issues.
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Single-payer would be far more disruptive to even more people.
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Well, here's the answer: Foreign single-payer systems pay doctors less.
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Republicans even tried to force the single-payer out of him.
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Polling emphasizes the instability of public opinion when it comes to single payer: Although support for single payer has risen in recent years, a Kaiser Family Foundation survey last year found that positive opinions on the issue were easily flipped when respondents heard that single payer would increase government control over health care or require many Americans to pay more in taxes.
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But the 2013 version of his single-payer proposal — the only existing single-payer bill in the Senate — says "nothing in this Act shall affect the eligibility of veterans for the medical benefits and services" provided through the VA. An aide to Sanders confirmed that the provision exempting the VA from the new single-payer insurer will remain in the upcoming bill.
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If it were not deducted in the accounts of the payer, it would be taxed twice: once in the inflated profit of the corporate payer and again in the hands of the recipient (probably a bank).
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Joe Manchin, who votes with Republicans more than any other Democrat in the Senate, is "skeptical that single-payer is the right solution," but thinks the Senate "should carefully consider all the options," single-payer included.
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Though Sanders has thought through some specifics of how to implement his plan, the newly awakened single-payer constituency will have to answer some hard questions about how America might implement a sound single-payer plan.
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An Upshot article on Tuesday about the expense of instituting a single-payer health care system in the United States misstated the average salary of general practitioner doctors in Britain, which has a single-payer system.
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As such, I'm now, despite growing up a conservative afraid of such government largesse as "Medicare for all," convinced that a single public payer, either as rate setter or as a true single payer, is needed.
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BUSINESS DAY An article on Saturday about a proposed single-payer health care system in California misstated the name of the organization that conducted a survey on public attitudes toward a single-payer national health plan.
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"Single-payer, I think we should have that debate as a nation," Mark Bertolini reportedly said after being asked about the possibility of the GOP's ObamaCare repeal plan paving the way for a single-payer system.
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In fact, based on the same audits, an estimated $85033 - $900 million dollars can be saved annually by making other available health insurance coverage the primary payer to CHIP, thereby moving CHIP to secondary payer status.
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That's still a sizeable chunk of people without health insurance, and that's why people want to improve upon Obamacare or replace it with universal coverage, like a single-payer system [see "universal healthcare" and "single-payer healthcare"].
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Of course, it's understandable that single-payer supporters would be reluctant for CBO to score a single-payer system — the number would cause sticker shock and likely sink the effort before supporters could even make their case.
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Modern journalists and analysts routinely claim that single-payer programs are more efficient—and thus are similar in spirit to Lenin and Mao, who justified government takeovers on the basis of the virtues of single-payer programs.
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It was in Vermont that Senator Bernie Sanders learned to love single-payer health care — what he now calls Medicare for All — and it was in Vermont that American single-payer faced its greatest test so far.
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But in my experience, relatively few rank-and-file single-payer proponents are even aware that stingy reimbursements is how single-payer controls costs — in part because essentially none of the movement's leaders ever say it publicly.
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JIM CRAMER: Other than Joe Biden, every Democratic candidate favors single payer.
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Keith Ellison (D-MN) and it is still a single-payer proposal.
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The biggest policy disagreement they have is on single-payer health care.
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He didn't support single-payer healthcare, free college, or tax hikes. 17.
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Still, the report recommended that the group not support single payer proposals.
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But she still isn't taking on the fundamental idea of single payer.
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Bernie Sanders says he's going to introduce a single payer bill soon.
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He, too, criticized the idea of a single-payer system on Wednesday.
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One possible solution is to have just a single payer: the government.
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Despite investor concerns, public support for a single-payer system has grown.
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What about financing, often the trickiest question for a single-payer plan?
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The next step down this line is a massive single payer system.
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Elizabeth Warren, beat out a single-payer skeptic in California's 45th District.
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The United States was almost the only cash payer for Venezuelan oil.
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And it's not all galas and tax-payer funded couture dresses, either.
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Medicare for All: Yang advocates for a single-payer health care system.
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Single payer makes all of them the responsibility of the taxpayers forever.
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Clinton of hypocrisy regarding his plan for a single-payer health system.
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But by its author's own admission, the House single-payer plan — Rep.
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Conyers first introduced his single-payer "Medicare for all" bill in 2003.
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Speaking on Tuesday, he framed single-payer as a job-creating mechanism.
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So they talk about costs for a single-payer health care system.
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The system is always intended to be a single payer universal system.
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He said it contrasted sharply with Democratic proposals for "single-payer" healthcare.
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They've got single-payer medicine andwe're paying it out of the company.
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Single-payer cannot pass until the interests of such constituencies are addressed.
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Bernie Sanders' single-payer health care bill when it's introduced in September.
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All these proposals, in their own ways, logically lead toward single-payer.
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The plan moves the system to a government-run, single-payer program.
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After all, England and Canada appear to have successful single-payer systems.
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A lot of congressional candidates throughout the country have opposed single-payer.
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So how could a single-payer system here still be so expensive?
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This is often referred to as the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) provision.
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AOC and other progressive Democrats favor a single-payer plan like Sen.
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In June, she finally announced she was "with Bernie," on single-payer.
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" Trump said this month, though that his idea is "not single-payer.
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It could even impact the political debate about single-payer health care.
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Single payer was integral to the party's platforms from 2202 until 2628.
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Key findings: Single payer opponents found a lot to be happy with.
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" And the "industry" here isn't just Big Pharma, but also "Big Payer.
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"Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next" by Timothy Faust
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Sanders has pushed even further for a government-run, "single-payer" system.
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She would push for full single-payer later in her first term.
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He has admired single-payer health care systems in Canada and Scotland.
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But Mr. Obama did not pursue a single-payer formula as president.
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Go deeper: What Bernie's single-payer bill means (and what it doesn't).
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I do think there's a way to get to single-payer incrementally.
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In June, she finally announced she was "with Bernie" on single-payer.
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I am an advocate of a 'Medicare for All' single payer program.
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A majority favored the idea of a single-payer national health plan.
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First, a vanishingly small number of countries actually have single-payer systems.
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Biden's opposition to something resembling single-payer hasn't always been so fierce.
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They pushed for single-payer health insurance in races across the country.
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Spellbound Democrats should also consider the fate of past single payer proposals.
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If you don't like it, leave—for a country with single-payer.
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But single-payer activists have been out there for a long time.
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Private insurers are outlawed — otherwise, it would be a multi-payer system.
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We need waivers from Trump to get single-payer in this state.
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Maryland has successfully regulated hospital prices based on an "all payer" system.
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He wants to push for single-payer health care and renewable energy.
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But when Min mentions single-payer, Resnick doesn't seem too into it.
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Mr. Payer declined to be interviewed and did not respond to questions.
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He supports the Affordable Care Act, but not a single-payer system.
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One thing we won't see: a leap to a single-payer system.
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Elizabeth Warren, would mandate a Medicare-style single-payer system for everyone.
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He has also called for a statewide single-payer health care system.
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Is single-payer insurance the one "true" path forward for health care?
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Underlying the dispute are different assumptions about how single payer would work.
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You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
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"Our state of California should deliver on single-payer," said Democratic Rep.
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"We'll get single-payer healthcare and all that," he told Business Insider.
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Older Americans are covered by Medicare, which is a single-payer system.
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Here's where the top six candidates stand on the single-payer system.
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Younger Democratic voters were particularly likely to back a single-payer system.
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Also, a switch to single-payer would require a large tax increase.
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However, single-payer would likely cost even more than Blahous' study suggests.
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Single-payer healthcare was one of the main campaign platforms for Sen.
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They should push the United States closer to single-payer health insurance.
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Think of Medicare for all as a brand-name single-payer plan.
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The subject was Sanders's support for a single-payer health care system.
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No similar model exists for congressional Democrats to replicate on single-payer.
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Bernie Sanders's single-payer health care plan is a nonstarter in Congress.
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Bernie, this ends your dream of a single-payer health care system.
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But this time around, there's a second target, and that's single-payer.
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Thorpe isn't some right-wing critic skeptical of all single-payer proposals.
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Single-payer does this by eliminating private plans for one government plan.
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Neither seems likely to catch on, but both are more welcoming than "single-payer"—or for that matter, the "public option," the healthcare reform alternative embraced by single-payer skeptics, which is also stuck with a lousy name.
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Obama himself became more conservative on the issue: Though he once supported what he called "a single-payer universal health care program," he came to believe that single-payer would be "too disruptive" for the health care industry.
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Single-payer supporters often cite polls showing support for the idea of more people having insurance and healthcare (if not a single-payer system in particular), but there's a gap between public enthusiasm and the caution of legislators.
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Do we want a single, nationwide payer of care (Medicare for all), each state to have its own payer of care (Medicaid for all), a nationwide marketplace where we all choose among a selection of health plans (Healthcare.
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Second, single-payer supporters believe the central obstacle to single-payer is that politicians and pundits paint it as radical and emphasize public opposition rather than focusing their fire and coverage on the inequities of the current system.
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For all the talk of cost savings, single-payer plans are very, very expensive in America Most single-payer countries use the government's massive buying power to negotiate low health care prices; they essentially demand a bulk discount.
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The single-payer bills Democrats have written in Congress contain special exemptions that would ensure the new national single-payer system doesn't affect the VA, even while extending insurance to the 28 million Americans who currently lack it.
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Polling on single-payer plans is notoriously fickle, but this February 2016 survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation demonstrates the dilemma California officials will now face: Half of Americans said, in the abstract, that they would support single-payer.
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Backing a public option instead of single-payer is now considered a moderate position on healthcare within the party, whereas as recently as 2010 the public option was the default liberal view (single-payer advocates were seen as loons).
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"I would never, never recommend that a country that has single-payer all of a sudden introduce multi-payer competition," Ewout van Ginneken, a health researcher in Berlin who has studied the Dutch and other European health systems, says.
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It's true that shifting from a multi-payer to a single-payer system streamlines some elements of payment administration, but the overwhelming preponderance of the cost savings in a Medicare-for-all plan comes from the lower reimbursement rates.
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If we get single payer, what does it mean for Novartis and innovation?
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Each payment corresponds to an electronic message between the payer and the recipient.
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As far as I understand, Maryland's all-payer rate setting has global budgeting.
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A switch to single-payer coverage, under a plan proposed by Vermont Sen.
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Single-payer can be one of them — but it isn't the only one.
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Countries such as Canada, the United Kingdom, and Denmark offer single-payer systems.
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Would it be a public option or all-payer rate setting, global budgeting?
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Service than a single-payer program like those of Canada or France. Federal,
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John Conyers (D-MI) also reintroduced his single-payer legislation earlier this year.
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Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All bill, or any single-payer health care system.
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Has to fit it in before his 15 day tax-payer funded vacation.
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Despite concerns from UnitedHealth, public support for a single-payer system has grown.
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That doesn't happen in a single-payer system like the one Sanders proposes.
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About half of the countries that attempt to build single-payer systems fail.
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It's clear that single-payer, however, will not be raised in those discussions.
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There is a lot of misunderstanding about what a single-payer system means.
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The difference being that the welfare-dependent non-tax payer ultimately has nothing.
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Enacting single-payer would require broad Democratic consensus, which doesn't exist right now.
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Biden's plan could be seen as a significant stepping stone toward single-payer.
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All of those projects would still be important in a single-payer world.
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She is a proponent of single-payer health care, among other progressive stances.
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We rate Trump's claim that Clinton wants a single-payer system as false.
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Yes, but: Some hospital constituencies aren't part of the anti-single-payer lobbying.
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Biden wins the Democratic nomination without changing his current view against single payer.
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More and more, Trump fans are seeing single-payer as part of that.
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The alt-right single-payer fad suggests that elites are finally catching up.
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Single-payer could, in theory, achieve true universal coverage at significantly less cost.
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Clinton also attacked Sanders call for a national single payer health care system.
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More and more Democrats are embracing the idea of single-payer health care.
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THEY'VE GOT SINGLE PAYER MEDICINE AND WE'RE PAYING IT OUT OF THE COMPANY.
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With a single payer these complexities disappear: Everybody is in, nobody is out.
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Universal coverage by a single payer is simply not on the political horizon.
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Healthy low-income Medicaid recipients could be subsumed in a single-payer plan.
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Single-payer could integrate supports for nursing home care now financed through Medicaid.
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For long-time advocates of single-payer, this is all rare good news.
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" Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio has a different argument for avoiding "single-payer.
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In 1992, Gottfried introduced his first bill proposing a state single-payer system.
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Maryland liberals are hoping to elect a pro-single-payer governor next year.
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But he doesn't sound worried that his latest single-payer bill will fail.
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Instead they are pointing to the sticker shock that comes from single-payer.
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Single-payer would clearly hurt these industries, putting some entirely out of business.
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His proposals include a $15 minimum wage and a single-payer healthcare system.
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In health care, the buyer who is also consumer is not the payer.
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If you look around the world, lots of countries have single-payer systems.
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Kennedy's push for barring state single-payer systems comes as Democrats embrace Sen.
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They back single-payer by the widest margin, 54 percent to 20183 percent.
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Former tech executive Andrew Yang: Advocates for a single-payer health-care system.
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Wealthier seniors may end up paying more under single-payer, Ms. Blumberg said.
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Publicis said on Tuesday its subsidiary Publicis Health announced acquisition of Payer Sciences.
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In a broader sense, I think single-payer health care is the answer.
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Some of these proposals have been pitched as stepping stones toward single-payer.
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That would actually expand access to affordable, high-quality care -- unlike single-payer.
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And in 2017, she declined to endorse Sanders's single-payer health care bill.
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Yarmuth asked the CBO in January for a "qualitative" analysis of single-payer.
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Gillibrand expressed some support for single-payer health care in June as well.
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Opponents also argue single-payer would mean upheaval and less choice for patients.
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Single-payer has gained traction among Democrats, with potential 85033 contenders like Sens.
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But Republicans are seeing an advantage in Democrats' embrace of single-payer, too.
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But Obama previously supported single-payer when he was a senator from Illinois.
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The announcement comes as single-payer health care gains support from mainstream Democrats.
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"I am more than open to the idea of single-payer," Kennedy said.
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Activism on behalf of the ACA was not a rejection of single payer.
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Republicans—who control all branches of the federal government—sharply oppose single-payer.
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Lots of countries have single-payer but it looks different in different places.
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Even a marginally divided front on single-payer would be a big deal.
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He has proposed a regional single-payer health-care system across the West.
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To some, "single-payer" is just a way of saying coverage for everyone.
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Second, single-payer countries have also failed to control rising health care costs.
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Other countries achieve universal health care (or nearly so), but without single-payer.
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It isn't telling us that single-payer health care has long wait times.
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But it still probably isn't the single-payer system that most advocates want.
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It's also an argument that Sanders, the godfather of single-payer, has made.
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This is, in a way, the fundamental tradeoff of single-payer health care.
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"If a third-party payer wasn't involved, there's no assessment," Dr. Kahn said.
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But McCanne, the single-payer advocate, doesn't think much of the public option.
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Senator Bernie Sanders plans to introduce his own single-payer bill on Wednesday.
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Mr. Obama never tried to create a full single-payer system, and Mrs.
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In a nutshell, that is how we get a single-payer government system.
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In fact, it is the strongest argument against Mr. Sanders's single-payer plan.
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In Reinhardt's view, single-payer would be the most equitable and efficient program.
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In 2014, the Indonesian government established a single-payer universal health care system.
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Obamacare vs Romneycare A single-payer health insurance system is a Democratic dream.
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Newsom's fiercest allies, meanwhile, were focused on keeping him committed to single-payer.
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But single-payer would take much, much longer, if it was even possible.
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Walker has backed another candidate, Kimberly Graham, who supports single-payer health care.
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France uses a hybrid system that is mostly but not wholly single payer.
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Or with why you haven't taken a clear stand on single-payer healthcare?
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As for voters who oppose a single-payer system, Buttigieg was the favorite.
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But the spotlight won't just be on the single-payer health care proposal.
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To my friends on the left, single-payer is fine, but not necessary.
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For many, particularly on the right, a single payer system in not palatable.
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Many are calling for Congress to create a single-payer health-care system.
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But Cruz criticized single-payer programs in other countries, as well as ObamaCare.
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Single-payer health care proposals have been scored as adding — not reducing — debt.
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It also brings us closer to enacting a single payer system by default.
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Bernie Sanders' single-payer health plan -- but allow anyone to buy into Medicare.
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Dem senator makes case for single-payer in personal terms 2:50 p.
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But who would administer a single-payer plan that covers every U.S. resident?
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Medicaid is a large payer of services for those with an opioid addiction.
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That same year, he put forward a single-payer bill in the House.
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That same year, he put forward a single-payer bill in the House.
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What's more, single-payer is not the only way to achieve universal coverage.
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"The alternative is single-payer, and we're not going down that road," Sen.
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For one thing, at the time, backing single-payer represented a political risk.
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The pitch for single-payer is admirably simple: We cover every (legal) resident.
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He also advocates for a single-payer system that includes coverage for immigrants.
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Michael Bennet, who has aggressively positioned himself as opposed to single-payer, said.
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Bernie Sanders is expected to release his single-payer proposal in early September.
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Both single-payer options envision Medicare covering more benefits than it currently does.
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Fifteen Senate Democrats are co-sponsoring Bernie Sanders's single-payer health care bill.
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Lake explicitly credited Sanders with galvanizing interest in single-payer among younger voters.
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America couldn't pass a Canada-like single-payer system fast enough for him.
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Not every Bernie Sanders voter is a supporter of single-payer health care.
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Bernie Sanders's argument in favor of single-payer health care is pretty simple.
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But the most ambitious single-payer plans are probably dead in the water.
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"Of course I support single-payer — the primary wasn't about that," Ofran said.
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It includes this paragraph: Modern journalists and analysts routinely claim that single-payer programs are more efficient—and thus are similar in spirit to Lenin and Mao, who justified government takeovers on the basis of the virtues of single-payer programs.
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At that point, the Conyers single-payer bill had been around for nearly a decade, but the PCCC's Green says that on that day and in that room, some people heard Medicare-for-all and thought of a single-payer system.
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The Medicare-for-all theory of the case is if you had a single payer, everybody would accept it because if there's only one payer in town; you either accept the government plan or you're not going to have any customers.
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We'll start with the AMA... Major doctors group votes to oppose single-payer health care The nation's largest doctors group on Tuesday voted against a measure that would have dropped its decades-long opposition to single-payer health care proposals.
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Adam Gaffney is the president of the Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) — and a single-payer advocate whom I've found to be especially clear-eyed about what a single-payer system in the United States can and can't do.
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Warren's plan to pass a public option first, and then attempt to pass single-payer in her third year of office, centers on the idea that people will love the public option so much that everyone will push for single-payer.
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Though single-payer health care has become a new rallying point within the party, Ossoff said in an interview that he doesn't support "any move toward single-payer when we need to be focused on what's achievable" on health care policy.
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But in the absence of a workable single-payer plan to defend, Democrats have been able to talk up the idea of a single-payer system where everyone has government insurance — without having to commit to underlying policy trade-offs.
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Second, single-payer proponents claim that the $32 trillion single-payer cost should be considered differently from the other expenditures, since, in theory, money spent privately on health insurance and other health-care costs would now be spent by the government.
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We call this the "private payer" system, and it feels like capitalism, not socialism.
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Some states might want subsidies, some won't, some states might go to single-payer.
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" The same day, he wrote that the single-payer push is "basically a distraction.
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Getting 17 Democratic senators to back a single-payer plan is no small feat.
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Canada experienced massive upheaval and protest when its single-payer system launched in 1962.
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Democrats were far more open to a single-payer system than Republicans and independents.
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He slammed the single-payer plan again and again as unrealistic and politically dangerous.
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Voters in Massachusetts, New York and California probably do want single-payer health care.
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Take Ackerman's recent long piece critiquing Vox's coverage of Bernie Sanders' single-payer plan.
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But that's the point: single-payer just isn't a political possibility starting from here.
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For instance, they might be for both single-payer health care and mass deportations.
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Conyers was also the longtime sponsor of the House single-payer health care bill.
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"My understanding is that the cost of single-payer is enormous," Feinstein told me.
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It is the Democratic establishment's alternative to the single-payer approach favored by Sen.
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Single-payer would cover everyone, including the roughly 100 million people with preexisting conditions.
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Mr. Krugman argues against pursuing single-payer because he sees it as politically unfeasible.
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Child support is neither tax-deductible by the payer nor taxable to the recipient.
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Steve Daines, who hates single payer, to dare Democrats to vote for it. Sen.
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The party's progressive wing is trying to seize on single-payer as that solution.
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Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) — have publicly embraced single-payer.
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She is promising single-payer healthcare and free college, and has a way to
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But Sanders, I think, has preempted all that: He's made the goal single-payer.
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Allowing people of all ages to buy into Medicare is progress toward single-payer.
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Many health experts think the single-payer system is fairer and more cost-effective.
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Just eight years ago, he refused to even hold a hearing on single-payer.
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"Single payer" is a catch-all term that means different things to different people.
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This happened to the "skinny repeal" proposal, and it would happen to single payer.
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For Pence and other right wingers, "single-payer health care" is code for Obamacare.
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But the single-payer option proved to be divisive, and opposed by most Republicans.
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But he remained skeptical of a bill that didn't include a single-payer plan.
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Ultimately, I believe, however, that we need to move to a single-payer system.
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And one of the legislators said, 'Yeah, but that's the single-payer plan, right?
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Let's run a candidate who's promoting single-payer and see what we can do.
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Public opinion polls had begun to show hardening support among Democrats for single-payer.
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That's how much Washington Democrats' single-payer healthcare proposal would cost over 10 years.
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Even single-payer described as such has the support of nearly half of Americans.
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The challenge to bring down costs, under this system or single-payer, is large.
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In Washington, Sanders has been trying to build support for his single-payer bill.
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Likewise, Democrats won't have the votes to pass a public or single-payer option.
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"They're playing with my life while collecting money from the rate-payer," Greer said.
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Support for single payer is also growing among doctors and other health care professionals.
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Even in the United Kingdom, home to the most robust single payer health care
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Delaney made a powerful analogy about the folly of single payer health care proposals.
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Words of caution: Single payer on the state level is difficult to pull off.
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On the single-payer issue, for example, Murphy is seeking to find a compromise.
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Colorado voters widely defeated a similar single-payer proposal by 4-1 in 2016.
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But red-state incumbents aren't the only Democrats worried about embracing single payer. Sen.
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Republicans could be helped by the ongoing internal Democratic debate over single-payer healthcare.
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Donald Trump has said he's for single-payer health insurance; the GOP's against it.
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Single-payer health care, one of his signature issues, is increasingly popular too; Rep.
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We had some mention of a single-payer option by Democratic primary cadida Sen.
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He prefers a single-payer system akin to expanding Medicare for the entire population.
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It also means single-payer is no longer a fringe issue: It's a freebie.
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With single-payer, all these businesses and employers are now absolved of that responsibility.
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In Pennsylvania, Pamela Delissio drafted legislation for a medicare for all single payer plan.
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Under a single payer plan, this would be much easier and far less expensive.
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They will be formally taking a look at the single-payer plan from Rep.
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Correction: An earlier version of this article said Flynn's challengers had endorsed single payer.
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It has been reflected to show they endorse an eventual path toward single payer.
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Why it matters: This essentially would become single-payer for dialysis services in California.
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To the single-payer crowd, the public option wasn't as large as they wanted.
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He specifically mentioned his accusation that Trump supports tax-payer funding for Planned Parenthood.
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Pelosi was quick to note that she's supported the single-payer strategy for decades.
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Gillum is the only Democrat in the field who supports single-payer health care.
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Their starkest disagreement was over whether California could afford a single-payer health system.
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Go over to Europe and see what you get with a one payer system.
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While both are single-payer models, they stop short of being truly socialist programs.
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Why do Trump supporters like the idea of a single-payer health care system?
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In all these interviews — including the focus group — I didn't ask about single-payer.
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Ms. Warren's responses sounded almost as single-mindedly focused on the single-payer approach.
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The odds of a single-payer supporter winning the whole shebang are shockingly high.
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So that when we start yelling single-payer back and forth, let's discuss that.
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And there are still holdouts to the new pro-single-payer consensus, for sure.
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And the politics of single payer at the national level would hardly be easier.
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Single-payer systems ensure universal insurance coverage and reduce direct financial burdens on beneficiaries.
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Sanders's overhaul would create a single-payer system that would eliminate private health insurance.
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I refer to it as the yellow brick road to single-payer health care.
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Supporting single-payer isn't stopping a crucial segment of Democratic voters from backing Biden.
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For conservatives, Medicare for All (single payer) should appeal because it will control costs.
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That's why we sometimes see wide differences in estimating what single-payer would cost.
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No one — not single-payer supporters or opponents — should take one study in isolation.
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People want to make it work because single-payer has clearly improved Taiwanese lives.
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Full-blown single payer would result in a federal spending increase of $34 trillion.
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Medicaid is the primary payer for more than 85033 percent of nursing home residents.
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A single-payer overhaul of the national health insurance system was unlikely to succeed.
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The reality of single-payer is that patients die waiting in line for care.
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The Senate passed a single-payer health care bill, which the Assembly then shelved.
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Until then, "affordable single-payer health care" will remain just an empty talking point.
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There are various versions of this single-payer legislation floating around, though Vermont Sen.
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There were calls for a single-payer system modeled after Canada or European nations.
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"J'habitais dans un mobil-home pour éviter de payer un loyer", se rappelait-il.
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Australia has a single-payer system, basically Medicare for All — it's even called Medicare.
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The conservative alternative to creeping single-payer is an expansion of the private markets.
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In Iowa, Nevada and New Hampshire, six out of 10 voters supported single payer.
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ZenBacle: How much paperwork do patients in single-payer systems have to fill out?
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I suspect you're going to get your wish for single payer, sooner or later.
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It's true of Medicare, and it's true of single-payer systems in other countries.
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The ad knocks Quist for supporting military cuts as well as single-payer healthcare.
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CVS Health and Aetna may join retail pharmacy, pharmacy benefits management and payer solutions.
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The government remains the largest single payer of health care in the United States.
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Advocating for a single payer healthcare system in his home state, California State Sen.
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They would probably lose the single payer debate and the country would be transformed.
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It is something even the policy experts who work on single-payer worry about.
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In the near term, single-payer is definitely more expensive than a public option.
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Ezra Klein already laid out the path to a better debate about single payer.
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Steyer supports single-payer health care, raising the minimum wage, and free public education.
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Chris Murphy (D-CT) told me on Tuesday when I asked about single-payer.
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Will its tax hikes wind up scaring Senate Democrats off the single-payer dream?
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And that is why I believe in a Medicare for all, single-payer program.
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This is way more than any single-payer system anywhere in the world costs.
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He supported single-payer health care, and now his position is anything but Obamacare.
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Single-payer would require intricate negotiation to navigate the transition from employer-based coverage.
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And one concern about single-payer I've heard from doctors is regarding medical debt.
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"If there's ever a vote for single-payer, I'm a 'yes,'" he told Vox.
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This literally keeps Obamacare and ensures a perpetual need for bailouts or single payer.
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Of course, conservatives normally level the exact opposite objection against single-payer health care.
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Attendees gave each other advice about how to advocate for single-payer, for example.
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She wants to go to a single payer plan, which would be a disaster.
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Although a single-payer system would almost certainly be more efficient than the continuation of a multi-payer system, such a system would require a tax increase of a scale likely to cause the public to balk — especially when anti-tax groups mobilize.
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But whatever you think about single-payer as a policy, let's agree on something: "Single-payer," the phrase, needs to be rolled up in a carpet, shot, taken out to the middle of some remote lake, and tossed into the watery depths.
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These pro-single payer zealots want to emulate the disastrous single-payer systems adopted in other countries, where program costs exceeded expectations and rose faster than predicted, price controls were enacted, rationing became necessary and higher taxes were imposed to cover ballooning costs.
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Democrats pushing single-payer have no intention of having to deal with the problems that come with all government-run single-payer systems: waiting lines, rationed care and limited access to the newest (and sometimes the most expensive) prescription drugs and medical devices.
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The left will demand that Democrats immediately call for either a public option or a single-payer health insurance system — but even single-payer advocates on Capitol Hill say they'd support piecemeal fixes like reinsurance in the event that McConnell seeks Democratic cooperation.
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The late Uwe Reinhardt, the famed health economist who helped set up Taiwan's single-payer system (read my colleague Dylan Scott for more on that), once told me that he feared American politics was too captured to properly construct a single-payer system.
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A single federal payer — as such proposals envision — may well eliminate the waste, inefficiency and corruption that make the current system so expensive and inaccessible; the experience of countries like Canada and Britain that rely heavily on one government payer suggests as much.
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"What single-payer proposes is actually very simple," Dr. Carol Paris, the president of the advocacy group Physicians for a National Health Care program, which has written a policy paper on what single-payer could look like in the US, told Broadly.
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Peter Shumlin in Mr. Sanders's home state of Vermont design a single-payer plan there.
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Medicare-for-All would shift all Americans into a Medicare-based, single-payer healthcare plan.
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Some Democrats who have backed single-payer plans say private insurance would continue to exist.
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There are many interests lined up against a single-payer system in the United States.
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The doctors went back to work and single-payer began to spread to other provinces.
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In the past, Sanders' crusade for a single payer system has been a lonely one.
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The western front California legislators passed a single-payer bill in 2006, but Republican Gov.
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The payer in this case is the government, rather than a for-profit insurance company.
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And she's known for her support of single-payer health care and opposition to trade.
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Both Buttigieg and Klobuchar now say moving quickly to a single-payer system is unrealistic.
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The pro-single-payer Jones is an Air Force vet and talks like one sometimes.
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Mr. Obama's "leftist" health care initiative didn't even permit discussion of a single-payer plan.
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The plan Sanders proposes has no analogue among the single-payer systems that currently exist.
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And for now, that's all congressional Republicans have to say about the single-payer fervor.
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Disability advocates previously criticized single-payer efforts over their exclusion of long-term care benefits.
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"I hope that this will spread like wildfire through the entire payer system," Schleifer said.
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The search and discovery network launched a native video payer and autoplay videos on Tuesday.
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Medicaid is the single largest payer of mental health and addiction services in the country.
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Bernie Sanders, favors such a so-called single-payer option for the health-care system.
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All support single-payer health care and typically operate outside the sphere of party politics.
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Sibanye, once the industry's highest dividend payer, last made a payout to investors in 2016.
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"They've got single payer medicine and we're paying it out of the company," he said.
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But single-payer health insurance, or "Medicare for all," is a much more divisive proposition.
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BECKY QUICK: We also— CHARLIE MUNGER: We've already gone a long way towards single payer.
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A few years ago, Sanders would introduce a single-payer bill all on his own.
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Things like single-payer healthcare, tuition-free colleges -- even things as basic as family leave.
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Still, the public's appetite for single-payer suggests that policymakers should take the idea seriously.
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It suggests that we may be heading inexorably to a government-run, single-payer system.
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Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) also indicated she supports some version of a single-payer system.
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It's an exciting moment for longtime advocates of single-payer, but a perilous one, too.
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We're going to have to explain what a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system means.
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Thus what everyone "knows" about the lower administrative costs of single-payer systems is false.
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Fifty-three percent said a single-payer system would restrict people's choices in medical care.
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Scholten supports single-payer health care and raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has offered his own single-payer government health-care plan.
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A single-payer plan covers everyone, regardless of income, and eliminates copays, deductibles and premiums.
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He puts the price tag of single-payer healthcare at $2628 trillion over ten years.
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She would have joined other unfortunates in single payer systems who experience death-by-queuing.
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Many progressives say backing single-payer health care is a necessity for the eventual nominee.
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"You're going to need consumer-first digital health solutions," even under single payer, Tullman said.
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Both Pelosi and Schumer are liberal lawmakers who have supported single payer in the past.
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Under a single-payer program, the government would cover health care costs for all residents.
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But the poll also shows that those who initially oppose single-payer can be swayed.
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She thinks a single-payer health care system can save more than other analysts think.
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" Later, the Speaker slammed Democrats' single-payer health-care proposal as a "singularly bad idea.
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The second test is how strongly Democrats want to attach single payer to their brand.
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It's not Sanders and other single-payer advocates who have the most explaining to do.
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Both Warren and Sanders support single-payer health care, an example of nationalizing a market.
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Without ever drawing the conclusion, this article explains why single payer makes the most sense.
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But Sanders insists on inserting the more controversial term "single payer" into Medicare for all.
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In particular, Republicans will take aim at the potential costs of a single-payer system.
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He pointed to the growing interest among Democrats in Sanders's single-payer health-care bill.
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She's said she'd be open to a public option, rather than a single-payer system.
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Single-payer plans could be the answer to statewide coverage and lower health-care costs.
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Still, control of the House would almost certainly give a boost to single-payer supporters.
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It's not necessarily true that these jobs would immediately vanish in a single-payer world.
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But he didn't go all the way to endorsing a Sanders-style single-payer system.
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Younger doctors aren't necessarily opposed to single-payer health care, and some fully support it.
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Will Hurd in Texas's 23rd district, "supports a single payer system," per her campaign website.
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That's something that a single-payer system can never deliver — no matter how cleverly named.
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She also has covered the issues of shifting to a single-payer system more quickly.
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Hubbell wants to reverse that privatization, while Glasson supports a more liberal single-payer option.
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But spun another way, low prices also make the politics of single-payer much harder.
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Transitioning to single-payer in the near term requires canceling plans for 160 million people.
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In 1962, the province implemented a single-payer program of universal, publicly funded health insurance.
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This is a good point: Single-payer systems can come in all shapes and sizes.
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It may not be single payer, but it's a step toward regulating health care prices.
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The plan Sanders proposes has no analog among the single-payer systems that currently exist.
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Ms. Jayapal and other single-payer enthusiasts cheered the development as momentum for their proposal.
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And though single-payer advocates often claim it's popular, the polling is far from clear.
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Bernie Sanders, who has pushed for single-payer health care, would win the Democratic nomination.
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Under one scenario, for instance, Texans could be subsidizing single-payer health care in Vermont.
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But is the push for single-payer health care taking Democrats down a similar path?
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"Someone said, 'you are backtracking on single-payer,'" he said, when pressed on the question.
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"You're going to go where your payer has told you to go," Mr. Hill said.
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For now, the top Democrats in Congress have yet to embrace a single-payer bill.
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But he worries that the quick shift among his peers on single-payer could backfire.
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" Later in the article, single-payer is referred to as that old canard "socialized medicine.
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Analysts find that Canada's rollout of single-payer coverage cut infant mortality by 5 percent.
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That year, Mr. Shumlin barely won the popular vote against an anti-single-payer Republican.
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It will be a lot more expensive than a Medicare for all single-payer system.
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Candidates supporting single-payer have acknowledged its employment ramifications, and have sought to address them.
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But many advanced, industrialized democracies with universal coverage don't have a pure single-payer system.
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He also defended single-payer as a "compromise position" on MSNBC as recently as February.
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In my opinion, Dr. Siegel's article is an unwitting endorsement of a single-payer system.
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But it has been, and remains, a challenge to keep the single-payer plan sustainable.
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U.S. doctors must realize that single-payer makes Washington the decision maker, not the patient.
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And they are more interested in a single-payer system, which means government-run healthcare.
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In office, he has insisted that he remains committed to the idea of single-payer.
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Some even want to make support for single-payer a litmus test for Democratic candidates.
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I have nothing against single-payer; it's what I'd support if we were starting fresh.
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They want single-payer health care, a higher minimum wage, and greater protections for unions.
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I'm a liberal who'd be perfectly happy with single-payer health care in this country.
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Even if single-payer reduces costs and lifts quality, the transition would be very tricky.
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Just 44 percent of all American voters supported a single-payer plan funded by taxes.
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Now, though, several of the Democrats supporting a single-payer system are 2020 presidential hopefuls.
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Nearly all the Democratic presidential candidates began 2019 espousing a single-payer health-care system.
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Dylan Scott: One of the benefits of single-payer is there's a lot less administration.
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Canada's drugs are cheaper than ours because its single-payer health care system negotiates prices.
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Chessare supports a single-payer universal health care program, as has been proposed by Sen.
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Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) wants Democrats to show their cards on single-payer healthcare.
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Fifty-four percent of independents support single payer while 22019 percent of Republicans oppose it.
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Medicare is a government-run, "single-payer" health care system for older and disabled Americans.
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Warren supporters were nearly evenly split between a public option and single-payer, 44%–50%.
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On the other side, Sanders and Klobuchar support ObamaCare, but aren't united on single payer.
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Ted Cruz last year, O'Rourke backed a "Medicare for All" single-payer health insurance program.
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The former vice president attacked single-payer health care as too expensive and too disruptive.
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Even two years ago, in 2016, Clinton pushed back hard against Sanders's single-payer plan.
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This is not the first time state leaders have pressed for a single-payer bill.
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In fact, until this year there's never even been a goddamned hearing on single payer!
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In fact, until this year there's never even been a goddamned hearing on single payer!
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None of these would be a factor in a single-payer, Medicare for All system.
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One of those ideas, "Medicare for all," would create a single-payer health care system.
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"Why does the government believe they could run a single-payer system effectively?" she asked.
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Like it or not, the only solution is a nationwide single-payer health care system.
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In Colorado, voters rejected a single-payer ballot referendum by a nearly 60-point margin.
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Is your long-term outlook that there needs to be a universal single-payer program?
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In passing a bill, Vermont had gotten closer to single-payer than any other state.
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It is the most generous vision for single-payer health care in the developed world.
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Now, suburban Democratic voters who might be inclined to support single-payer are suddenly wary.
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Sanders deserves credit for noting the real virtues of a well-executed single-payer system.
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There are massive policy obstacles to bringing a single-payer system to the United States.
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It's not single-payer, it's not really universal health care, but it is a start.
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Republicans are going to hate it as much as if it were true single-payer.
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And increasingly, they're embracing a full transition to a single payer system as an answer.
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Those who insist single payer rationing is some kind of invented conservative boogeyman should talk about what completely government-controlled single payer looks like at the Veterans Administration hospitals, where we know of all too many patients who died while waiting interminably for care.
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However, if they come together with a common short-term agenda, the two camps can make immediate progress toward their common goals—expanding coverage and lowering costs—in ways that are compatible in the long run with either a single-payer or multi-payer approach.
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Some supporters of the public option are selling their plan as a "glide path" to single-payer, the same destination as Sanders; Buttigieg has said he hopes to one day achieve single-payer by having Americans voluntarily choose to enroll in the government insurance plan.
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Steve Daines (R-Mont.) attached an amendment to one version of the ObamaCare repeal bill Wednesday that would have created a single-payer healthcare system in the U.S. Daines does not support a single-payer system but used the model as a political maneuver.
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When I went to Vermont's capital, Montpelier, in March 2014 to write a long story about the single-payer effort, the working assumption among pretty much everyone I spoke to was that this was it — this time, a single-payer plan would actually happen.
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Indeed, in 2006 he laid out a single-payer proposal for Vermont after being hired by the legislature, and was retained by progressive Vermont lawmakers again in 2014 as the state seriously considered single-payer, authoring a memo laying out alternative ways to expand coverage.
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John Conyers's (D-MI) single-payer bill, which more than 60 percent of House Democrats have now co-sponsored, includes a provision explicitly stating that the VA and veterans' benefits will "remain independent" of the new single-payer system, at least in the first decade.
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There are some little signs of seedlings that it could become more of a payer situation.
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Embracing single payer in the US would also divert money into peoples' pockets in increased wages.
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Britain's National Health Service is also often used as an example of a single-payer system.
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Sanders hit all his high notes, from oligarchy to money in politics to single-payer healthcare.
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And that's what's missing from her new offensive on Sanders's proposal for single-payer health care.
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His Medicare for All plan, a mandated single-payer system, is the dream of some progressives.
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The arithmetic behind Bernie Sanders's single-payer health care proposal is the subject of much dispute.
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We endorse single payer because it's the best business plan for the economy and our businesses.
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Blue states can keep Obamacare or try to build on it — Obamacare-plus, single-payer, whatever.
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Warren supports the Medicare For All single-payer plan backed by her rival, Senator Bernie Sanders.
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The options range from full-scale single-payer to a far more modest, optional expansion. Sen.
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Support for a single-payer system climbed from 50 percent in a February 2016 Kaiser poll.
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A number of Democratic presidential candidates have voiced support for a single-payer health-care system.
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Other surveys have indicated Democrats would prioritize improving the Affordable Care Act over passing single-payer.
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But progressives brush aside the criticisms that single payer health care is unrealistic or too expensive.
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The plan is significantly more generous than the single-payer plans run by America's peer countries.
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Warren said she's "with Bernie [Sanders] on 'Medicare for All,'" a single-payer health care program.
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Democrats have grown increasingly energized with Sanders's single-payer proposal he is planning to announce Wednesday.
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But he says now is a moment to talk about fixing Obamacare, and not single-payer.
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The Chicago Tribune reports that he supports the Green New Deal and single-payer health care.
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Between 24 and 235, they collectively received more than $11.2 trillion in tax-payer funded help.
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" Questioned about his single-payer "Medicare for All" plan, Sanders snapped, "I wrote the damn bill.
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Many conservative Donald Trump supporters excuse his past support for single-payer healthcare and abortion rights.
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Single-payer health care appears to be experiencing a surge in popularity among Democrats in Congress.
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That legislation advocates a single-payer plan that will cover everyone in one nonprofit public system.
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Whether Democrats are able to exploit that failure without going over Niagara on single-payer etc.
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ABC News reported early exit polls showed two-thirds of voters want single payer health care.
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Even elites in the alt-right mold who once deplored single-payer are changing their tune.
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Now that the Republicans have failed, the time is ripe for a serious single-payer push.
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That's not a program flaw, and it doesn't make single-payer health insurance a bad idea.
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Bernie Sanders, a longtime supporter of single-payer healthcare, speaks in Puerto Rico on May 16.
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The Democratic political establishment was behind single-payer, and they worked for years to achieve it.
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On the broader left, taking into account Democrats of all stripes, single-payer is increasingly popular.
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Baucus told NBC News that "the time has come" to consider single-payer government health care.
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"Yes," the New York senator does support single-payer, her senior adviser Glen Caplin told me.
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In other words, if I understand correctly, there is no tax-payer money being gambled here.
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That is why opinions will eventually congeal behind a single-payer system to make it happen.
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Advocates of single payer consider it a virtue that employer-based health insurance would be eliminated.
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John Conyers's (D-MI) single-payer proposal — the most support it's gotten in the party's history.
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Even if single-payer reduced overall medical expenditures, it would still require big federal tax increases.
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The arguments against the NYHA are echoes of the normal arguments marshaled against single-payer healthcare.
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This comes at the same time Democrats in the Senate are increasingly talking about single-payer.
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My colleagues Ezra Klein and Dylan Matthews have written extensively on Bernie Sanders's single-payer proposal.
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If they continue to concede that single-payer is unaffordable and unachievable, it certainly will be.
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The majority of the country wants single-payer which would be the most fiscally conservative move.
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Y.), and rising star Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) are rushing to praise a single payer philosophy.
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" He said moving to a single-payer program would "simplify health care and lower patients' costs.
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That Medicare-for-all plan would still cost more than single-payer plans in other countries.
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Single-payer healthcare programs have been gaining traction among members of the Democratic party, with Sens.
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He's campaigned on his support for single-payer health care and a statewide assault weapons ban.
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This week, after long resisting Mr. Sanders's call for a single-payer health care system, Mrs.
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"The ideal would be that we have a full country with single-payer," Mr. Khanna said.
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A number of Democrats have latched onto his "Medicare for all" single-payer health-care plan.
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But it could quickly transform into something far worse — a de facto single-payer healthcare system.
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Trump has defended his past support for single-payer healthcare, a concept generally reviled by Republicans.
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Edmund J. Pezalla, MD, MPH is a consultant on payer strategy for pharmaceutical and device manufacturers.
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There's also a domestic example of the failures of single-payer -- the U.S. Veterans Health Administration.
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TV last month found that a majority of self-described Republicans, 2628 percent, support single payer.
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The White House blasted Sanders's proposal, however, adding to its past criticism of single-payer plans.
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M4A would limit this monopoly power by putting a powerful government payer up against the monopolists.
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Even though Canadians payer higher taxes, it ensures that the majority of health services are covered.
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Unlike single-payer, however, Medicare Part E seeks to improve employers' role rather than replace it.
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States that are looking to implement the single-payer model must address a number of challenges.
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She suggests establishing legislative policies that limit payer notifications when sensitive services are provided to dependents.
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A unified service, single-payer activists have long insisted, would be simpler and cheaper to administer.
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He campaigned in Midland for "Medicare for all," the Sanders-backed single-payer health care program.
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"Obamacare is failing to deliver, as Democrats' recent embrace of single-payer makes clear," he added.
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Strategist Simon Rosenberg noted that Sanders faced no notable Democratic criticism for his single-payer rollout.
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That's really, really hard politically above and beyond the basic difficulty of getting single-payer passed.
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All stand to lose under single-payer, especially if it's used to bring down healthcare costs.
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Universal coverage under a single-payer system funded by tax dollars would actually save people money.
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President Donald Trump has already called out "socialist" single-payer in his 2020 reelection launch speech.
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This is what happened when Sanders's Vermont attempted to create a single-payer plan in 2014.
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That means there's a good chance a single-payer ally will be in the general election.
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The bottom line: Most of Democrats' leading 2020 prospects have endorsed some form of single-payer.
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Support has also grown among doctors, who were once vocal critics of any single-payer system.
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One house of the California legislature recently voted to adopt a single-payer health care system.
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Moreover, the president himself has expressed admiration for single-payer health care systems in the past.
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Mr. Newsom would spend more money on housing subsidies and push for single-payer health care.
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In part this is because administrative and marketing expenses are much lower under single-payer plans.
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Bernie Sanders (I-VT) single-payer bill, which would move all Americans to government-run coverage.
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Progressive legislators in California and New York have introduced single-payer bills in their respective statehouses.
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This isn't to say that single-payer systems are necessarily more expensive than ours currently is.
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Then he called the single-payer health care plan that Sanders and Warren support too expensive.
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A single-payer system built with $629 Band-Aids isn't going to be affordable at all.
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Hillary Clinton has made a lot of bad arguments about Bernie Sanders's support for single-payer.
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Rather than making the trade-offs of a single-payer plan clear, he's obscured them further.
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A single-payer health plan requires people with other forms of comprehensive health insurance to switch.
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Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who also supports single-payer, clarified nobody's insurance would be taken away.
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Harris is a co-sponsor of Sanders's Medicare-for-all single-payer bill in the Senate.
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The architects of the Vermont single-payer effort planned to run the state's universal coverage program.
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The Bernie Sanders single-payer health care plan, released on Wednesday, is a totally different story.
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Sanders and comes as Democrats have moved with astonishing speed to embrace single-payer health insurance.
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Bernie Sanders has championed a single-payer system and Joe Biden has criticized such a plan.
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The United States is not the only country lacking a central payer that negotiates bulk discounts.
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"Single payer, socialism — or federalism, returning power to the states to make decisions," Mr. Thune said.
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He has not offered a detailed version of how he would achieve a single-payer system.
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A single-payer referendum in Colorado was voted down last year, 79 percent to 21 percent.
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In a sign of shifting sympathies, most House Democrats have now endorsed a single-payer proposal.
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He said he would have been unlikely to press for single-payer under a Democratic president.
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Similarly, Medicare for All supporters argue that single-payer would reduce the nation's overall health spending.
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Democratic pollster Celinda Lake credited Sanders with galvanizing interest in single-payer among the younger voters.
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Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat from West Virginia, referring to Sanders' single-payer health care system.
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Warren, for instance, has said there may need to be steps toward a single-payer system.
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More than anything, "single payer" has become shorthand for the notion that everyone deserves health care.
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A majority of people in Taiwan disapproved of the single-payer plan when it took effect.
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If California wants to try a single payer system for its 22019 million people, that's fine.
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The provision was envisioned as a way to allow liberal states to pursue single-payer systems.
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We know that Medicare is falling behind almost every other payer in reimbursement for telehealth services.
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And he'd been studying traditional single-payer systems, like those in place in Canada and Taiwan.
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They're not all single payer, but they all achieve universality or something very close to it.
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Even Max Baucus, the powerful former Montana senator who long opposed single-payer, now supports it.
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But single-payer doesn't necessarily involve the elimination of private insurance, as Larry Levitt points out.
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It's entirely possible for the country to move toward single-payer without going all the way.
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Which brings me to the third point: In reality, single-payer won't happen any time soon.
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Nearly the entire democratic field is out with some version or other of single payer healthcare.
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" Into this category he placed both single-payer health care alongside the "so-called public option.
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This is the wrong footing for proponents of any kind of single-payer health care plan.
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Whether you call it single-payer or Medicare for All, it isn't some socialist pipe dream.
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Most of the health economists I know would love to see single-payer — Medicare for all.
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This relatively small investment could radically boost our return-on-investment on tax-payer funded research.
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The progressive push for a single-payer health care system is likely to encounter similar crosswinds.
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Oh, yes…right about when it became important to their future Medicare and private payer compensation.
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She opposes California's push for single-payer health care, which was a core tenet of Sen.
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He said tax reform will give an average annual benefit of $1,018 per tax payer filing.
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The decision to co-sponsor Sanders's bill is Harris's first instance of publicly supporting single-payer.
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Debbie Dingell of Michigan will unveil the most significant single payer proposal in the House yet.
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The United -- the United Kingdom has a form of single-payer health care, Canada, France, Germany.
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The idea of single payer has gained traction among the liberal ranks of the Democratic Party.
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If ObamaCare is not repealed, Graham says the U.S. will head toward a single-payer system.
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On Friday, Sanders blasted out a fundraising email vowing to redouble his efforts for single payer.
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Therefore, for every $280,265 in alimony paid, it only costs $20,000 after-tax to the payer.
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Discussion of single-payer health care systems increased somewhat last week with the introduction by Sen.
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Many red-state Senate Democratic candidates in tough races this year have rejected single-payer, however.
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Both nonprofits seek to help move the nation towards a single-payer national health care system.
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The tripartite contract will ensure the double control, by the payer government and by the clients.
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Republican voters have been told repeatedly that a single payer system means government-controlled health care.
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We have seen the negative effects of the single payer system through the VA and Medicare.
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Why is the United States the only industrialized country without a single-payer health care system?
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"People know exactly what I'm talking about when I say single-payer," El-Sayed told Vox.
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Nearby Vermont failed horribly when it attempted to set up a state-level single-payer system.
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The real disagreement is he thinks we should move forward on single-payer, and she doesn't.
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Opinion Columnist The Brits and Canadians I know certainly love their single-payer health care systems.
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So single-payer health care, or in our case "Medicare for all," is worth taking seriously.
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Americans are more decentralized, diverse and individualistic than people in the nations with single-payer systems.
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Gravel believes firmly in his own campaign platform — Green New Deal, single-payer health care, etc.
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A big part of Bernie Sanders's single-payer plan is a reduction in payments to doctors.
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Most other countries with single-payer systems allow a more expansive, competing role for private coverage.
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California's legislature passed a single-payer bill in 211.2, only to have it vetoed by Gov.
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A Colorado attempt at single-payer didn't get enough signatures to qualify as a ballot initiative.
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They could be receptive to a single-payer program, but they will need some more convincing.
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Bernie Sanders fanatics and DSA darlings pulling for expanding Medicare and developing a single-payer system.
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First, single-payer would not "fix" Washington's current unsustainable health spending, as its advocates often claim.
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Universal health care and very likely that will involve some form of a single-payer system.
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Most other prominent Democrats, including those vying for the nomination, are out stumping for single-payer.
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But it's really our current system, not single-payer health care, that should evoke incredulous reactions.
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Back then, Canadian single-payer opponents were making the exact same arguments against the program as American single-payer opponents do today: that it was too much government in medicine, that physicians would no longer be able to practice medicine in the way they saw fit.
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They posit outlandish increases in the utilization of medical care, and ignore vast savings under single-payer reform, and ignore the extensive and well documented experience with single-payer systems in other nations — which all spend far less per person on health care than we do.
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Consider the following list put together by my colleague, Rapid Response Director for the Republican National Committee Michael Ahrens : Single-Payer Health-Care When Bernie Sanders first offered a single-payer health-care bill in 2013, he didn't have a single co-sponsor in the Senate.
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Almost by definition, single-payer cannot cure the pathologies that underlay our current health care system, because single-payer would necessarily be enacted through the same legislative structures, implemented within the same path-dependent $3 trillion medical care political economy, that created and sustained our current pathologies.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "Why a Single-Payer Plan Would Still Be Really Costly" (The Upshot, May 17): As a physician who favors a single-payer plan, I cannot disagree with your analysis about the high cost of moving to this type of health care plan.
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Since both single-payer and the ACA are more popular than Graham-Cassidy, Sanders and Klobuchar should be able to deftly defend the status quo health-care system in comparison to the Republican proposal, while simultaneously espousing potential upsides of a single-payer system down the road.
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On the other side, from an anesthesiologist intern in Chicago, fiscally liberal but socially conservative, who has some concerns about how single payer would handle Catholic hospitals: The one part of a more single-payer system that worries me relates to the socially conservative opinions I have.
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As single-payer health care gains currency in Democratic circles, opinion researcher Michael Perry gathered two focus groups of eight Clinton voters last fall to interrogate what ordinary, rank-and-file Democrats think about single-payer and other proposals to expand the Medicare program to more Americans.
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Called the "cash mode option," phones negotiate a connection using audio to identify the payer and payee.
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Harris would allow for a privately managed version of a single-payer program, similar to Medicare Advantage.
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He is also keen to point out that no tax-payer money has gone into the fund.
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Lastly, by virtually every measure worldwide, a single-payer system produces results that actually keep people healthier.
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Single payer has been a dream for the Democrats, but the Republicans are in charge right now.
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But progressives persist in calling for single payer because that's really a value, not just a policy.
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"There's a lot of mythology about the cost of single payer," he said at a recent debate.
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But the bad news is other crucial parts of the single-payer program might run into trouble.
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They could finance it, and if there is one financer, and you could call that single-payer.
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Nordic businesses don't have [to pay for employees' healthcare] because healthcare is provided through tax payer funds.
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DUFFY: It&aposs single-payer -- DOVE: You can&apost at the same time say -- DUFFY: One second.
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We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing.
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Details: Even aside from California's failed single payer bill, more substantively realistic proposals have hit roadblocks, too.
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Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts for her support of the "Medicare for All" single-payer health care plan.
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That made it the second-biggest payer of addiction treatment after all local and state government programs.
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Phil Bredesen – who's running for the open Senate seat – that says Bredesen supports single-payer health care.
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His campaign said in a fact sheet that he's said he doesn't support single-payer health care.
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Why it matters: Single-payer health care is no longer a far-fetched fantasy of the left.
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The single-payer push needs more wonks, but no amount of wonking could save repeal and replace.
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Mr. Sanders wants what is called a single-payer program, a major change to our current system.
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It might not be full single-payer, but it's a lot closer than where Obamacare was headed.
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But none of the European systems from which Mr Sanders draws his inspiration are purely single-payer.
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Bernie Sanders' campaign thrust explicit calls for a single-payer system issue back into the national debate.
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We won't address all of the issues covered in these analyses, just single payer, Medicare-for-all.
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Shorn of that aim, the need to balance single-payer coverage, subsidies and fines no longer applies.
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You read about the debate about single-payer health care and all the issues, the partisan politics.
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Our Medicare for all single-payer proposal will save the average middle class family $201213,201203 a year.
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"They may go by different names like single-payer or the so-called public option," Trump said.
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She would tax and spend her way to a nationalized, single-payer health system — a sure failure.
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VC, Seedcamp, IQ Capital, UCL Technology Fund, and the U.K. tax payer-funded London Co-investment Fund.
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First up, though, is a glossary of 24 health insurance terms from copay to single-payer healthcare.
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Ossoff has recently sounded more centrist themes, coming out against single-payer health care and higher taxes.
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The program is the single largest payer of mental health and addiction treatment in the United States.
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Among all registered voters, 44% support a single-payer health care system, versus 4003% who oppose it.
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Already a majority of the general public (58 percent in a recent Kaiser poll) supports single-payer.
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France's health-insurance system, like Canada's, is mostly based on the second paradigm, the "single-payer" concept.
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BAIC Group is Beijing's largest tax-payer and employs over 100,000 people, the majority being local residents.
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The president's trips to Florida every weekend have already cost more than $20,000,000 of tax-payer money.
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Democrats could gain power after the next presidential election and enact a single-payer health care system.
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Paul Starr, who (as noted) has penned several recent articles dismissing single-payer (as well as blasting
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There's also no political viability for "single payer" universal health care controlled by the government, he added.
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Bernie Sanders' proposal for a single-payer government-run system, which it says would cost $20000 trillion.
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" Single-payer, he concludes, would involve "less socialism, and more private choice," than "what we now have.
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Sanders's bill stands very little chance of ever being enacted, or of getting America to single-payer.
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But it stands an excellent chance of getting the country quite a lot closer to single-payer.
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He is trying to replace the Democrats' old goals — universal coverage — with a new goal: single-payer.
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" Clinton charged that Sanders' single-payer health care plan will "cost middle-class families and working families.
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It adds: The single-payer plan also subjects capital gains above $250,20103 to regular income tax rates.
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The skepticism Bruenig brings to private insurance is the same skepticism many bring to single-payer insurance.
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Kirsten Gillibrand, who co-sponsored Sanders' 2017 Medicare for All bill, has said she supports single-payer.
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So we must ask: Is it worth it to sacrifice our environment for single payer health care?
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While a single-payer healthcare system may relieve progressive dyspepsia, it will leave others with extreme distress.
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Many among the top 20 percent will perceive themselves to be losers within a single-payer plan.
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Single-payer healthcare, as such systems are also called, has been a left-wing lodestar for generations.
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But a lot has changed in the year and a half since Clinton dismissed single-payer—a.k.a.
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The Republican attack on single-payer is brilliantly simplistic, focusing on just a single number: $13 trillion.
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A January poll found that 38 percent of Americans support single-payer, including 51 percent of Democrats.
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Medicaid is the single largest payer of behavioral health services, including mental health and substance use services.
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In the past, critics have pointed to just how costly a single-payer insurance system would be.
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Republicans oppose single-payer, 2023-35, and independents are split, with 51 percent opposing and 49 supporting.
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The best-polling aspect of single-payer is the public's belief that it will cover more people.
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Momentum is building among House Democrats for a more moderate alternative to single-payer health-care legislation.
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But liberal think tanks and research groups are just starting that work on single-payer health care.
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Here's why: Medicare pays doctors and hospitals higher prices than single-payer systems do in other countries.
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General practitioners in Britain, which has a single-payer system, earn an average pay of around $130,000.
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These potentially persuadable voters are divided on major issues like single-payer health care, immigration and taxes.
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Today's crop just won't come close to providing the vast sums needed for his single-payer plan.
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She veered left in the early phase and not just on a single-payer health care plan.
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"As far as single payer, it works in Canada," Trump said at a Republican debate in August.
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Overall, Medicaid, which helps low-income and disabled people, is the single largest payer for these services.
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John Hickenlooper: Supports single-payer health care, advocating for the general idea rather than a specific policy.
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"We need a single-payer healthcare system for all Americans," O'Rourke wrote on Facebook in October 2017.
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Klobuchar is seeking to broaden the debate beyond the GOP frame of contrasting repeal versus single payer.
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Sanders pushed for his single payer Medicare for All idea, saying it is not a "radical" idea.
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For these reasons, single-payer will remain a tough sell to wealthy conservatives like the Koch brothers.
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Khanna acknowledged that the Trump administration will not approve California's request to create a single-payer system.
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In one insurer contract, if the drug does not work the payer will receive two separate rebates.
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Overall, a single payer would save about $500 billion annually by trimming administrative spending to Canadian levels.
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They co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program, a nonpartisan organization that advocates single-payer reform.
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But in practice, Democrats haven't been able to muster enough votes to pass a single-payer plan.
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Additionally, a large single-payer network has substantial negotiating leverage to set and control healthcare reimbursement rates.
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Polls — and most Democratic House members from swing districts — see single-payer as a general election disaster.
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Newsom, the 2018 gubernatorial candidate with his own single-payer plans, to be an ally going forward.
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This week, she credited his campaign with starting the fast-growing Democratic momentum for single-payer healthcare.
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Democratic control of the House alone wouldn't lead to a single-payer law in and of itself.
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He said it is understandable that they would fight back given the "growing momentum" for single payer.
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Topics scheduled for discussion include single-payer healthcare, criminal justice reform and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
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They want to "set the stage for a single-payer health care system," and Medicare for all.
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Among Democrats, support for single-payer has increased by 19 percentage points over the past three years.
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But it's hard to deny that single-payer is an area where progressive politics has outstripped policy.
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Also, many single-payer programs do require a degree of cost sharing, involving small copayments or deductibles.
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Some Democrats think single-payer is the only acceptable answer if health care is a human right.
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Polls show that people support both "single-payer" and Medicare for All, but that support is soft.
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The plan is also significantly more generous than the single-payer plans run by America's peer countries.
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Sanders supports a national single-payer system, which Clinton says will ultimately hurt the Affordable Care Act.
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Because that's what has happened to countries that really do have single-payer, like Canada and Denmark.
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Making matters worse is our system's health care infrastructure, built on top of this fractured payer system.
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After decades in the political wilderness, "Medicare for all" and single-payer health care are suddenly popular.
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The single-payer approach also sidesteps the thorny mandate objection by covering everyone out of tax revenue.
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Except, here's the key thing it leaves out: America's seniors are essentially in a single-payer system.
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But single-payer activists maintain that a well-designed and properly funded system can accommodate the numbers.
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On the single-payer question, for instance, there was very little "Medicare for All or bust" rhetoric.
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Maryland could expand their all-payer rate setting into a model for the rest of the country.
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California is more than big enough to make a single-payer system work, if it so chose.
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But I don't see any way out of that, unless you go to a single-payer system.
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And the way things are going, soon no Democratic leader will be able to oppose single-payer.
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And the speaker supports shoring up Obamacare rather than starting from scratch with a single-payer plan.
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Attempts to set up single-payer systems at the state level have run into precisely this problem.
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However, he acknowledged that its spending could benefit Sanders and Warren, who support single-payer health care.
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A single-payer health system would be more functional, more economical and fairer than what we have.
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Sanders is seeking to create a single-payer, universal healthcare system popularly known as Medicare for All.
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Yet there is one question that haunts all single-payer systems: How do you pay for it?
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Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, said that single-payer was one of many options under study.
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The comprehensive single-payer health care proposal "Medicare for All" is the shining star for progressive Democrats.
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What the US can learn from other countries' health systems He finally delivered his answer: single-payer.
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The defeated Democratic candidate, Rob Quist, is a folk singer who believes in single-payer health care.
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Rationing of care is not only common; it's necessary to balance the books in single-payer systems.
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Taiwan, for example, even with its single-payer program, doesn't include long-term care as a benefit.
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DB: First, any proposal for change, including single-payer, should not be compared to a blank slate.
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But these access issues are not necessarily because Canada has a single-payer, or government-run, system.
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First, single-payer has a lot to recommend it as a way to achieve universal health care.
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Some have questioned that line of attack; the single-payer system is popular among liberal primary voters.
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What is at the heart of the successful single-payer health insurance systems in Europe and Canada?
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That's because Sanders' legislation is so wide-reaching it's hard to compare to existing single-payer systems.
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While the tweet does not use the phrase "single-payer," the question he was responding to did.
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The Energy and Commerce Committee discussed the single-payer health plan backed by White House hopefuls Sens.
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But even though all of our peer nations have universal coverage, single-payer is far from universal.
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The majority of Americans now support single-payer health care, according to a new poll released Friday.
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Polling conducted last summer by the Kaiser Family Foundation found similar results: 53 percent supported single-payer.
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Interestingly, even those who study health care systems have been reluctant to endorse a single-payer model.
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All three Democratic candidates support liberal issues such as single-payer healthcare and a minimum wage hike.
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Gillum ran as an unapologetic progressive, advocating for single-payer health insurance and calling for Trump's impeachment.
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Democrats acknowledge the embrace of single-payer is part of a broader leftward shift for their party.
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Government-provided health insurance, known as a single-payer plan, has found little political support in Washington.
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Elizabeth Warren slowed down the timeline on her proposal to implement a single-payer health-care system.
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Why it matters: Republicans control the House, Senate, and the White House, and they hate single-payer.
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Terry McAuliffe, did not respond to a request for comment on their stance on single-payer. Sens.
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When Sanders last released a single-payer plan in 28503, no other senators signed onto the legislation.
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Republicans will no doubt hate the single payer default option but will love the pure free market.
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They would not, however, amount to the full Bernie, eliminating private insurance and going full single-payer.
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Carter predicted earlier this year that the U.S. will eventually adopt a single-payer health-care system.
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Mr. Lara said the Republican defeat in Congress could pave the way for a single-payer system.
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Advocates of a single-payer program argue that it would bring down costs and encourage preventive care.
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The Energy and Commerce Committee discussed the single-payer health plan backed by White House hopefuls Sens.
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There are ways to achieve universal coverage that don't look like a single-payer system at all.
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The Clinton plan wasn't single-payer, but it was a lot closer than what we have now.
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Liberals might disagree with Clinton's true position on single-payer, but I think they would respect it.
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Et comment surveiller des mosquées sans les financer ou encadrer les imams qu'on ne peut pas payer ?
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The group's members have a long-standing history of supporting single-payer health care, an issue Sen.
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That's notwithstanding the Vermont senator's vow to forge a "revolution" and plans for single-payer health care.
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And even if she does win, that doesn't mean she'll have the votes to pass single payer.
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A single-payer "Medicare for all" system would end this needless loss of life and life savings.
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Some in the health care and insurance industries are mobilizing against proposals for a single-payer system.
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In the early 2010s, Vermont made a serious, years-long attempt to build a single-payer system.
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Americans are warming up to single-payer health care — and Democrats seem to be driving the trend.
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It's commonplace (though true) to note that single-payer is beyond the current boundaries of American politics.
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Single-payer supporters hated hearing that the public option had to be sacrificed to Joe Lieberman's ego.
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Some of the party's 2020 presidential candidates have endorsed single payer, while others prefer more incremental improvements.
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But when it comes to single-payer health care specifically, people's feelings are a little less clear.
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This doesn't mean single-payer advocates are wrong that such a system would be a good idea.
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Bernie Sanders (I-VT) began preparing for the rollout of his new single-payer health care bill.
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The public option was popular before Obamacare became law, and it's remained popular, as has single-payer.
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One could "fix" the ACA with additional taxes and/or a more single-payer system, but the reality is that the proposals for replacement all lean on moving further away from a single-payer system (mostly by cutting Medicaid) in order to pay for "reforms" of the system.
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