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Candida4 months, 3 weeks ago
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engineer: "BTW, every other country as single payer."
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I'm not sure, but I don't think so. Canada and Britain are but, as far as I know, the others have universal health care coverage, but not necessarily through a single payer system.
There was an article on Propeller about France and the Netherlands yesterday or the day before, and they didn't sound like single payer systems.-
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hyperbola4 months, 3 weeks ago
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Most of them are "single payer" with the government paying. The differences are in things like "co-payments" (you pay a percentage, up to a maximum per year - meant to cut out those who would go everyday for colds, e.g. in France), and the form of compensation. Some require you to pay with reimbursement from the government.
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Some systems are mixed. In Germany, you can go to any doctor or hospital you want, but the compensation paid by the government are determined by a national scale. If you want famous doctor XXX and he charges more for the procedure, you pay the difference. Germany also has a parallel private system. You CAN insure yourself completely privately and let the insurance company take care of everything. Because there is strong competition from the public system (Germany invests in it!), the insurance companies can't get very far out of line.
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