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The Practical Justification for Universal, Single-Payer Health Care
Elk Grove News Podcasts
English - January 20, 2019 22:31 - 4 minutes - 4.05 MB - ★★ - 3 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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By Dan Schmitt |
The United States is one of the few developed nations on earth that does not provide some form of universal, single-payer health care.
For clarification purposes, when referring to health care, the term universal means that all people within a country have coverage. The term Single-payer usually means that the federal government pays for everyone’s health care, with funding via a payroll tax similar to Social Security and Medicare.
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