I live under a rock; what is “single payer”?
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iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoNo more than the politicians who won’t pass single payer health care reform.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Single payer is a term generally used to describe government-paid, or socialized medicine. The government is the “payer” of the healthcare. In the absence of private-insurance companies, they would be the single payer. At least that’s how I think of the term.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And the only reason we even have the ACA is because the Dems had a filibuster proof majority for a handful of weeks, over a decade ago.
Dkarma@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Jesus fuck it’s been almost a decade since Obama…