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Oregone

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Mon May-25-09 03:33 PM
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Edited on Mon May-25-09 03:34 PM by Oregone

That is exactly what single-payer is referring to. A SINGLE public-owned health insurance company who PAYS for services of physicians enrolled in their program. Hence the term, "single-payer".

Its not just a matter of semantics. Universal "Medical Care" (without insurance) refers to a radically different system that would be impossibly implausible to implement in the US overnight.

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