@sarahkliff Also, FWIW, wikipedia is very multi-payery on Germany. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Germany …
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@afrakt Ah cool, thanks for that! Just doing a bit of a Rorschach test here... -
@sarahkliff Few people really know what "single payer" means. Some think Medicare is! (Oops!) -
@afrakt@sarahkliff Argh that's another post I have half drafted somewhere. (I need to stop losing my blog post-its.) - 1 more reply
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@sarahkliff Look up PBS' Sick Around The World with TR Reid- great outline of how to classify health systems- UK, Germany, Taiwan, Swiss.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahkliff not single payer. I'd call it managed competitionThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahkliff Universal system, not single-payer.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahkliff The German sickness fund is single payer. But the system as a whole is Multi-payer.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahkliff Not a single risk pool, so not single payer.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahkliff Definitely multi-payer. Private insurance can be supplementary to sickness funds as well as standalone for wealthier peopleThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahkliff It's more like they have used risk corridors.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahkliff You pay payroll taxes to whatever private insurance you want, but you also get rebates/pay extra depending on individual plansThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahkliff The two-tiered nature of the German system makes it decidedly non-single-payer.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahkliff No. It is publicly-funded, but also a private competitive insurance market.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahkliff No it is not single payer, why would you consider it one?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sarahkliff Seems more like multi-payer or all-payer to me... Admittedly, I'm not an expert on it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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