Acevil said:
Honest question can you explain single payer system to me. I been seeing this thrown out a lot and need to learn the benefits and drawback from it. |
Basically, the state itself covers healthcare for everyone regardless of income, occupation or health status. Usually, this is covered by a small tax or social contribution, which is a part of one's salary (usually quite small) that goes to the state. In Belgium, you have public health care funds that function as a front end between the government and the people. When you pay your doctor a visit and you paid your fee, you bring this fee in with the health care fund, which will refund you a part of the healthcare cost (depending on what kind of healthcare cost, this can be very small (for example, cosmetic procedures) to very, very large (like life medial procedures for life threathening conditions and general hospital bills.)
To sum it up quite shortly. Everyone pays a small percentage of his or her wage and the state uses this to cover everyone. In all cases, this system is cheaper per person then a private health insurance (Obamacare, which is a large scale coverage program on the basis of private insurance is in fact quite expensive to the state). Some people might say they're never sick and they pay for nothing, but it functions on the principle of solidarity.
