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in presidential debate last night

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[[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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At the first [[2016 presidential debate]], [[Donald Trump]] declared the following:<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-of-the-2015-gop-debate-9-pm/</ref>

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{{cquote|As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland. It could have worked in a different age, which is the age you're talking about here.}}

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To which [[Rand Paul]] responded:

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{{cquote|the Republican Party's been fighting against a single-payer system ... for a decade. So I think you're on the wrong side of this if you're still arguing for a single-payer system.}}

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