Can someone give me the tweet-sized explanation of the difference between single payer and universal healthcare? I thought single payer meant "you do business with the government or you don't do business in this country."
Single-payer healthcare is a type of universal healthcare[1] in which the costs of essential healthcare for all residents are covered by a single public system (hence 'single-payer').
i think sbeb has the right mindset and just fucked up what they meant to say. luka cola is a neo-liberal piece of shit.
They're not the same thing though. Single payer is practically universal typically (theoretically it doesn't have to be) but universal isn't necessarily single payer.
Well, single payer basically means all healthcare is paid for by the state. Theoretically it doesn't have to be universal, just to be paid for entirely by the state, no private insurance shit. It's what they had in the UK before the tories pissed all over the NHS in 2012. Universal healthcare can be single payer, but it doesn't have to be. It can be a mixed system, where everyone has access to healthcare, but maybe it's your employer who has to pay for your insurance (unless you're unemployed in which case the state pays for it and other shit like that) and you have the option to pay for a private insurance etc. So it is similar to Obamacare in some ways, except it's actually universal and doesn't leave like 30 million people uninsured. It's what many European countries have pretty much. The best way to implement universal healthcare is via single payer of course for many reasons.
Can someone give me the tweet-sized explanation of the difference between single payer and universal healthcare? I thought single payer meant "you do business with the government or you don't do business in this country."
they're the same thing.
Single-payer healthcare From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Medicare for All" redirects here. For the United States Congressional bill known as the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act, see United States National Health Care Act. For the US Congressional caucus supporting single-payer healthcare, see Medicare for All Caucus.
Single-payer healthcare is a type of universal healthcare[1] in which the costs of essential healthcare for all residents are covered by a single public system (hence 'single-payer').
i think sbeb has the right mindset and just fucked up what they meant to say. luka cola is a neo-liberal piece of shit.
They're not the same thing though. Single payer is practically universal typically (theoretically it doesn't have to be) but universal isn't necessarily single payer.
You're just arguing semantics at this point because you're asserting a different definition as the "true" definition.
I love this.
What different definition, this is the definition... It's literally in the name...
Well, single payer basically means all healthcare is paid for by the state. Theoretically it doesn't have to be universal, just to be paid for entirely by the state, no private insurance shit. It's what they had in the UK before the tories pissed all over the NHS in 2012. Universal healthcare can be single payer, but it doesn't have to be. It can be a mixed system, where everyone has access to healthcare, but maybe it's your employer who has to pay for your insurance (unless you're unemployed in which case the state pays for it and other shit like that) and you have the option to pay for a private insurance etc. So it is similar to Obamacare in some ways, except it's actually universal and doesn't leave like 30 million people uninsured. It's what many European countries have pretty much. The best way to implement universal healthcare is via single payer of course for many reasons.
Spoilers for when America puts in austerity measures to save costs by forbidding healthcare from being administered to misfits.