You can have a single-payer system, you can require employers, or you can have individual responsibility.
He steered clear of the approach favoured by the party's left a single-payer system, like Canada's or Britain's.
Kennedy has continued to push for a single-payer system, criticizing Democrats, including President Clinton, who abandoned that goal.
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).
Leslie Norwalk, former acting administrator of the agency that oversees Medicare, said opponents see the buy-in idea as another step toward increased government control, and eventually a single-payer system.
Something will have to give, which will likely open the door to making health insurance a public utility completely regulated by the government, or the left's real goal: a single-payer system.
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During the debate over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in 2009 and 2010, Mr. Weiner was one of the loudest advocates of a single-payer system a fight referenced in the campaign video.
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Dr. David Scheiner, who was Obama's personal physician for 22 years, and others have expressed a desire to see the nation adopt a single-payer system like the ones in Canada and Europe.
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.
They much preferred a single-payer health system and with its attendant replacement of market forces with command and control directives issued from Washington, D.
And when investors and parent corporations realize that there are much easier businesses out there with far better returns on investment, say goodbye to the for-profit healh insurance industry and hello to a government single-payer health system.
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In combination, these reforms would expand coverage, allow choice and lift the burden of health care from the companies that create jobs and wealth in our society--all without the bureaucracy and delays that would inevitably result from a single-payer, government-run 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 U.S. already has a single-payer health care system.
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And that means a government operated, single-payer system for everyone but large corporations.
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