Single-payer is a term used to describe a type of financing system. ... All Americans would receive comprehensive medical benefits under single payer. Coverage would include all medically

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This section describes what a single-payer system might look like in the United States.

In contrast, the single payer system that Canada has used for the last 25 years has drastically simplified their administration costs.

What I said was that if I were starting from scratch, if we didn't have a system in which employers had typically provided health care, I would probably go with a single-payer system.

It's impossible for private insurers to 'compete' with government. ... The public plan would inexorably crowd out private plans, leading to a single-payer system.

President Barack Obama has been prodding Congress to follow his principles on health care reform. ... On a single-payer health care system.

Russell Mokhiber, editor of Corporate Crime Reporter , has just formed a new group called "Single Payer Action" that is advocating direct action to demand a single-payer health insurance system in ...

Almost two months ago, I wrote about the single-payer system of which most Americans have never heard: the Indian Health Service.  The catalyst for the post was the death of a five-year-old girl...