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red dog 1

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10. "The UK health care system, National Health Servise, (NHS)..

Reply to Recursion (Reply #7)

Sun Mar 16, 2014, 04:06 AM

Mar 2014

..remains to date a service available universally that cares for people on the basis of need and not ability to pay, and which is funded by taxes and national insurance contributions."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3405352/

Sounds like universal health care to me.

In most cases, "universal coverage" and "single-payer system" go hand in hand, because a country's federal government is the most likely candidate to administer and pay for a health care system covering millions of people.".......Source: "About.com, Health Insurance"
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Can Obamacare Be Changed To Make It a Single-Payer Health Plan? [View all] red dog 1 Mar 2014 OP

I'd love single payer. Not entirely sure how it can be built on Obamacare, though. And I'm not GreenPartyVoter Mar 2014 #1

Don't the states have the option to go to single-payer after 2017? truebluegreen Mar 2014 #2

You build it on Obamacare in the blue states. jeff47 Mar 2014 #18

Say "Medicare-for-all", rather than "Single Payer". jazzimov Mar 2014 #3

I love this post. And Democratic candidates need to be campaigning on it. Vigorously. Loudly Mar 2014 #4

+ 1 red dog 1 Mar 2014 #6

Makes sense to me. red dog 1 Mar 2014 #5

Where did people get the idea that single payer is the only model that works? Recursion Mar 2014 #7

It's the most cost effective model. joshcryer Mar 2014 #8

Is it? I think the NHS model does better, doesn't it? Recursion Mar 2014 #9

What makes NHS not single payer? joshcryer Mar 2014 #11

I suppose strictly you could say it is, but that usually means Recursion Mar 2014 #13

It does look like Blair made it so you can opt out. joshcryer Mar 2014 #14

The more interesting part to me of ACA is the FQHC model Recursion Mar 2014 #16

Oh yeah... Lost_Count Mar 2014 #19

"The UK health care system, National Health Servise, (NHS).. red dog 1 Mar 2014 #10

You seem to be confusing "universal health care" with "single payer". They're two different things Recursion Mar 2014 #12

Thanks, I didn't know that. red dog 1 Mar 2014 #15

I hope the FQHC part of ACA really gets going Recursion Mar 2014 #17

The entire POINT of Obamacare is to funnel trillions into the hands of insurance companies... Demo_Chris Mar 2014 #20

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