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.
Having given up on the single-payer system, liberals resist breaking up the employer-provided model because it represents the next closest thing.
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.
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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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).
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.
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.
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.
Yes, more than a few Democrats will claim that the Veterans Administration health program is the liberal Shangri-la: an integrated single-payer system in which government pays VA doctors directly and owns and runs VA hospitals.
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.
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.
Yes, such a move would bring us closer to a government, single-payer health care 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.
Now, there are some who wanted a single-payer government-run 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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One way is the single-payer plan -- everybody is under a single system, like Medicare.
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