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13. I suppose strictly you could say it is, but that usually means

Reply to joshcryer (Reply #11)

Sun Mar 16, 2014, 04:12 AM

Mar 2014

"private practices with a single social insurance fund under government control". AFAIK that's relatively rare on a national scale for the whole population (even Canada does it by province, for that matter). The point of my kind of pedantic complaint is that single payer is one means of many by which countries achieve affordable universal health care.

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Can Obamacare Be Changed To Make It a Single-Payer Health Plan? [View all] red dog 1 Mar 2014 OP

I'd love single payer. Not entirely sure how it can be built on Obamacare, though. And I'm not GreenPartyVoter Mar 2014 #1

Don't the states have the option to go to single-payer after 2017? truebluegreen Mar 2014 #2

You build it on Obamacare in the blue states. jeff47 Mar 2014 #18

Say "Medicare-for-all", rather than "Single Payer". jazzimov Mar 2014 #3

I love this post. And Democratic candidates need to be campaigning on it. Vigorously. Loudly Mar 2014 #4

+ 1 red dog 1 Mar 2014 #6

Makes sense to me. red dog 1 Mar 2014 #5

Where did people get the idea that single payer is the only model that works? Recursion Mar 2014 #7

It's the most cost effective model. joshcryer Mar 2014 #8

Is it? I think the NHS model does better, doesn't it? Recursion Mar 2014 #9

What makes NHS not single payer? joshcryer Mar 2014 #11

I suppose strictly you could say it is, but that usually means Recursion Mar 2014 #13

It does look like Blair made it so you can opt out. joshcryer Mar 2014 #14

The more interesting part to me of ACA is the FQHC model Recursion Mar 2014 #16

Oh yeah... Lost_Count Mar 2014 #19

"The UK health care system, National Health Servise, (NHS).. red dog 1 Mar 2014 #10

You seem to be confusing "universal health care" with "single payer". They're two different things Recursion Mar 2014 #12

Thanks, I didn't know that. red dog 1 Mar 2014 #15

I hope the FQHC part of ACA really gets going Recursion Mar 2014 #17

The entire POINT of Obamacare is to funnel trillions into the hands of insurance companies... Demo_Chris Mar 2014 #20

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