• lemming934@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 months ago

    I would take “Public health care” to mean the government runs all healthcare services.

    Single payer means public health insurance, and the absence private health insurance. From the perspective of a private (or public) hospital, there is one payer: the federal government.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah. The difference is that there’s still private clinics (and maybe hospitals) that work as contractors.