Single Payer

Weiner's outspoken support for a government-run program for everyone known as a "single-payer" plan and later a "public option" to compete with private health insurance made him a liberal icon even though both proposals failed to make it into law. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The debate centers on whether government should provide universal health insurance for all called a single-payer system; employers should offer insurance as a benefit, with private insurance companies continuing to manage the cost of care through market-based competition; or individuals should be left to choose their own health care and insurance and bear most of the burden of paying for it themselves. ❋ M.D. Vivian Pinn (2006)

I just don't understand how a single-payer system can be put in place without some kind of intermediate step. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Seems to me that if the government were to nationalize the health insurance industry, you'd have a single-payer system without any intermediate step. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Maybe we can switch to single-payer and only the greedy executives will suffer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So let me ask this: Obama WAS for single-payer I think. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Against imf and world bank but for single-payer, if it weren't for the single-payer healthcare, I'd link you to an anarchist group so you could join. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But single-payer would mean wiping out the health insurance companies and allowing the government to dictate terms to the drug companies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert is concerned that the president is using health care reform to raise an army of single-payer sergeants...or something. ❋ Eliot Nelson (2011)

Bezerko, I agree with you - and if we were designing a brand new system I would be all for a single-payer system very similar to police/fire dept etc. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If he still believed in single-payer and he had the votes, wouldn't he just do it? ❋ Unknown (2009)

I mean, if one side isn't even willing to talk about anything that doesn't include single-payer, why should opponents even show up? ❋ Unknown (2009)