Comment by bigDinosaur
2 days ago
That's not what single payer actually means, since Australia has both a single payer public system and a separate private system. The part that allows these to both exist is that the public system has vast resources (i.e. an entire national/set of state governments) that can act as one for immense negotiating power. This does not preclude a private system from existing.
Legal definitions vary from legal jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and in Canada?
That's what it means. In Australia it can mean something different.
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