Health Care

Single-Payer System

An approach to health care financing with only one source of money for paying health care providers. The scope may be national (the Canadian System), state-wide, or community-based. The payer may be a governmental unit or other entity such as an insurance company. The proposed advantages include administrative simplicity for patients and providers, and resulting significant savings in overhead costs. (From Slee and Slee, Health Care Reform Terms, 1993, p106)

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An approach to health care financing with only one source of money for paying health care providers. The scope may be national (the Canadian System), state-wide, or community-based. The payer may be a governmental unit or other entity such as an insurance company. The proposed advantages include administrative simplicity for patients and providers, and resulting significant savings in overhead costs. (From Slee and Slee, Health Care Reform Terms, 1993, p106)

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9 entry terms
  • Single Payer System
  • Single-Payer Systems
  • System, Single-Payer
  • Systems, Single-Payer
  • Single-Payer Plan
  • Plan, Single-Payer
  • Plans, Single-Payer
  • Single Payer Plan
  • Single-Payer Plans

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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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a type of organized health-care financing

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  • Insurance, Health (1992-1995)

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  1. N03w.219w.521.576w.343w.962w
  2. N03w.219w.521.855w
  3. N03w.349.550.805w

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  1. National Library of Medicine. Single-Payer System. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D018855. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D018855
  2. Single-Payer System. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-payer_healthcare
  3. Single-Payer System. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1021512