Starting from scratch, he would have favoured a single-payer system such as "medicare for all".

他想从零开始，推行“全民医保”之类的单一支付方制度。

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But he prefers to supplement the private system rather than replace it with a "single-payer" national health service; many of his supporters are business people crushed by the cost of health care.

但他更宁愿选择通过对商业医保系统予以补充而非仰仗国家健康体系这一“唯一支付人”；他的许多支持者是受医保成本影响的商人。

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But the world over, the only solution is organizing the entire health system of a country under a single-payer mechanism that regulates it.

但在世界各地，唯一的解决办法是把一个国家的整个卫生系统组织在对其进行控制的单一付费机制之下。

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You can have a single-payer system, you can require employers, or you can have individual responsibility.

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He steered clear of the approach favoured by the party's left a single-payer system, like Canada's or Britain's.

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Kennedy has continued to push for a single-payer system, criticizing Democrats, including President Clinton, who abandoned that goal.

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