Dated: 2024-12-05. Added: 2024-12-05. Alternate title: “After UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Killing, Americans Express Frustration With Health Insurance Industry”.

    • PunnyName@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      And the only reason we even have the ACA is because the Dems had a filibuster proof majority for a handful of weeks, over a decade ago.

      • xapr [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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        17 days ago

        Single payer is a term generally used to describe government-paid, or socialized medicine. The government is the “payer” of the healthcare. In the absence of private-insurance companies, they would be the single payer. At least that’s how I think of the term.