How to Use single-payer in a Sentence

single-payer

adjective
  • Many on the Left, however, argue that this is not a step close enough to a full single-payer system.
    Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2023
  • He is not wedded to a Medicare for All-style single-payer system.
    Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The overall cost of single-payer in California could reach $500 billion a year.
    Sally Pipes, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • With health care, Jaramillo supports a Medicare for All-type single-payer system.
    Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 10 July 2023
  • Newsom signed a bill that sets the stage for California to work toward universal healthcare, such as a single-payer system that progressive activists have sought for years.
    Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • No such incentive exists within the single-payer version of Medicare.
    Avik Roy, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Just two days ago, volunteers for the California Nurses Assn., a staunch supporter of single-payer, were calling state lawmakers in hopes of a better outcome.
    Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
  • Lighty, whose organization supports single-payer health care, said the deadlines could help speed up the administration’s work.
    Sophia Bollag, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The setback galvanized the left wing of the Democratic Party, which saw single-payer as a litmus test for political candidates, and Newsom embraced the cause during his 2018 campaign.
    Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Only because Biden’s relevant staff is opposed to private insurance and wants a single-payer government system like Britain has.
    Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 15 July 2023
  • The country's single-payer system has been quite successful following decades of unsuccessful health care systems.
    Devika Rao, theweek, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Sanders has long advocated to create a single-payer, national health insurance program, and Mr. Biden has made lowering health care costs a centerpiece of his White House, as well as his reelection campaign.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Gutierrez advocated for a single-payer health care system; Allred doesn’t, instead pushing for an expansion of Medicaid.
    Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Mar. 2024
  • After a pacemaker insertion, cancer treatment, and a career collecting medical bills, Williams wants the U.S. to transition to a single-payer system.
    USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Adopt universal single-payer healthcare coverage and a healthcare cost control system.
    Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
  • Although elusive, a single-payer health care system has been another longtime goal for Newsom, who has been California’s governor since 2019 and was previously the state’s lieutenant governor.
    John Wilkerson and Rachel Cohrs Zhang, STAT, 21 July 2024
  • In one of the more inflammatory proposals, the group spent almost 45 minutes of the six-hour meeting arguing about whether the AMA should be able to discuss all health reform proposals, or continue to categorically oppose any single-payer models.
    Bob Herman Reprints, STAT, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Rivas supported legislation to create single-payer healthcare in California and allow legislative employees to unionize, both bills that Govern for California lobbied against.
    Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Advertisement Single-payer healthcare California lawmakers have repeatedly considered overhauling the healthcare system to create a single-payer system that would insure all state residents.
    Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024

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