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A single-payer health care system is one in which a single-entity -- the government -- collects almost all of the revenue for and pays almost all of the bills for the health care system.
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.
[[David Hogberg]] wrote:
* A single-payer health care system is one in which a single-entity -- the government -- collects almost all of the revenue for and pays almost all of the bills for the health care system. In most single-payer systems only a small percentage of health care expenses are paid for with private funds. Countries that have a single-payer system include Australia, Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom. [http://www.freemarketcure.com/singlepayermyths.php]
Single-payer is popular among the political left in the United States.
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