Socialized medicine
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This article is about the term "Socialized medicine" as it is used in U.S. politics. For national health care systems generally, see Universal health care.
Socialized medicine is a term used to describe and discuss systems of universal health care: medical and hospital care for all at a nominal cost by means of government regulation of health care and subsidies derived from taxation.[1] Because of historically negative associations with socialism in American culture, the term is sometimes used pejoratively in American political discourse.[2][3][4][5][6] The term was first widely used in the United States by advocates of the American Medical Association in opposition to President Harry S. Truman's 1947 health-care initiative.[7][8][9]
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Single-payer healthcare
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Single-payer healthcare is a system in which the residents pay the state via taxes in amounts determined by the state to cover healthcare costs, rather than individuals buying from private insurers competing for their business.[1] Single-payer systems may contract for healthcare services from private organizations (as is the case in Canada) or may own and employ healthcare resources and personnel (as is the case in the United Kingdom).
The term "single-payer" thus describes the funding mechanism, referring to healthcare financed by a single public body from a single fund, not the type of delivery or for whom physicians work.
The actual funding of a "single-payer" system comes from all or a portion of the covered population via taxes. In contrast multipayer healthcare uses a mixed public-private system.
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