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    49 months ago

    Why is “public health care” called “single payer” in the USA? It sounds so weird. Everybody pays for everybody, it’s not a single payer.

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      89 months ago

      I would take “Public health care” to mean the government runs all healthcare services.

      Single payer means public health insurance, and the absence private health insurance. From the perspective of a private (or public) hospital, there is one payer: the federal government.

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        49 months ago

        Yeah. The difference is that there’s still private clinics (and maybe hospitals) that work as contractors.