Why don't people demand access to health coverage and refuse to vote for anyone who doesn't pledge to make the single-payer system a reality?
The new taxes could well make the disparity between the payers and avoiders worse.
One of Taylor's tasks is to bridge the gap between CBBC – which is for children aged six-12 – and the main channels, to ensure future generations of potential licence fee payers make the transition as they grow up.
The fear of government-run health care, the power of vested interests, and the difficulty of completely overhauling the system have made the single-payer solution a bridge too far for Washington, and for much of the public as well.
For example, an annex can be a request for a clinical report made by the payer to authorize chemotherapy.
Our results demonstrate that considerable savings in the transportation costs related to dialysis services could be made by the payer by increasing the uptake of home-based dialysis regimens.
"On any objective view given the risks involved, the deception of these students, and the use of licence-fee payers' funds to make the programme, including paying for two further 'phantom student' places, must be highly questionable".
While it hasn't attracted as much attention, we also urgently need new health technology to help providers, payers and patients make the transition.
If you picked up on the claim, you might have thought it was absurd, given that a major goal of single-payer is to make the poor more financially secure.
What is it about health care that makes the term 'single-payer' taboo?
