Sentences with phrase «payer health insurance system»

Those results would be surprising if the case for a single - payer health insurance system was based more on financial gain and less on ideology.

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As each market is vastly different — ranging from a complex mix of public and private health insurance to single - payer systems — entering the health technology space can seem daunting.

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

So if the public - school analogy holds, the public option in health - care insurance won't create a system of choice and competition, as the White House claims; it will slowly — or not so slowly — give way to a (nearly) single - payer system.

If the public - school analogy holds, the public option in health - care insurance won't create a system of choice and competition, as the White House claims; it will slowly — or not so slowly — give way to a (nearly) single - payer system.

Since Affordable Care Act rules require you to buy health insurance from a corporation, rather than the single - payer government supported system found in most developed countries, it may seem cheaper and safe to delay buying it until you need it.

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