You can have a single-payer system, you can require employers, or you can have individual responsibility.
The only health care system that has those principles is a single-payer system.
In November, a referendum to bring a single-payer system to Oregon failed by a margin of four to one.
So if we take that out of the equation by creating a single-payer system, then we will be able to cover anyone.
Another group demonstrating demands, with more determination than expectation, that if "Obamacare" is killed it should be replaced with a single-payer system.
Capuano supports "patients' rights" health care legislation and a single-payer system, although he concedes the latter is a tough sell in a Republican-led Congress.
It was written as a progressive alternative to a single-payer system.
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Mr Obama disappointed liberals by ruling out a single-payer system and dropping the public option (a plan for a government-run scheme to compete with the insurance companies).
What I said was that if I were starting from scratch, if we didn't have a system in which employers had typically provided health care, I would probably go with a single-payer system.
His proposal does nod to the left: a government health scheme, akin to Medicare, would compete with private insurers, potentially opening the door to a single-payer system if everyone chose to join the public scheme.
Now, there are those on the left who believe that the only way to fix the system is through a single-payer system like Canada's, where we would -- where we would severely restrict the private insurance market and have the government provide coverage for everybody.
Indeed, one would have to possess one heck of a crystal ball to know when the nation will finally find itself with no choice but to adopt a single-payer system because the private insurers will no longer find it worth their while to remain in the business.
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As America struggles to extend health-care coverage while curbing health-care costs, we face a decision that is more important than whether we have a public-insurance option, more important than whether we will have a single-payer system in the long run or a mixture of public and private insurance, as we do now.
There have been proposals for national health care insurance, a single-payer national system similar to Canada's or those in Europe for many years.
Clinton tried to find a middle ground that would attract moderate Democrats without angering liberal House Democrats who wanted a single-payer insurance system.
High tax and pro-regulation blue states seem to want even more government control over health care, including a single-payer health care system.
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Welcome to the U.S. version of a single-payer health care system.
The new governor of Vermont, Peter Schumlin, a Democrat and former president of the Vermont Senate, is also pushing for a state-based single-payer system.
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Now, there are some who wanted a single-payer government-run system.
First among them are backers of a so-called single-payer system, who want to eliminate the role of private health insurance and have government pay all the nation's health care bills.
Yes, such a move would bring us closer to a government, single-payer health care system.
Either you can have a single payer system, or -- which, I know, a lot of people favor, but for many reasons, is difficult to achieve.
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The suggestions, some of them updates from a mayoral run he nearly made in 2009, include giving every public school student a Kindle reader and using Medicaid money to create a city-run, single-payer health system for the uninsured.
The suggestions, some of them updates from a mayoral run he nearly made in 2009, range from giving every public school student a Kindle reader to using Medicaid money to create a city-run, single-payer health system for the uninsured.
Any violation of the single-payer system and a limited budget has the potential of escalating both cost and the utilisation of services to the point of financial disaster.
But he failed repeatedly in his bid to have Congress approve a single-payer health insurance plan, similar to the Canadian system.
"It will come to a single payer, " he said of a government-run system for all.
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Radical supporters will urge him to go for what is called here "a single-payer scheme", which means an NHS-type system, funded out of general taxation.
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