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It appears that health care is approaching a single payer system, or something close to it.
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'''Single Payer''' refers to a [[health care]] system having only one payer of all health care expenses, typically a [[socialism|socialistic]] [[big government]] [[Welfare state]] - [[Nanny state]]. That payer would rely on [[tax]] revenues and perhaps some [[insurance]] premiums to fund its reimbursements and costs.
 
'''Single Payer''' refers to a [[health care]] system having only one payer of all health care expenses, typically a [[socialism|socialistic]] [[big government]] [[Welfare state]] - [[Nanny state]]. That payer would rely on [[tax]] revenues and perhaps some [[insurance]] premiums to fund its reimbursements and costs.
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Currently the federal government accounts for 43% of all health care expenditures, and a series of recent mergers among health insurance companies leaves only three major insurers.<ref>http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865637201/Government-single-payer-health-coverage-may-be-nation7s-future.html?pg=all</ref>  It appears that health care is approaching a single payer system, or something close to it.
    
[[Switzerland]], which has mandatory [[health insurance]], rejected a proposal to adopt a single payer system on March 11, 2007.<ref>http://www.businessinsurance.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?newsId=9723</ref>  71% of voters opposed it.  Switzerland currently has 87 different private health plans.   
 
[[Switzerland]], which has mandatory [[health insurance]], rejected a proposal to adopt a single payer system on March 11, 2007.<ref>http://www.businessinsurance.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?newsId=9723</ref>  71% of voters opposed it.  Switzerland currently has 87 different private health plans.   
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