Definitions

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  • adjective Involving payment by more than one party.

Etymologies

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multi- +‎ payer

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Examples

  • It bears no resemblance to the \ "robust\" public option originally sold by its supporters as the most pragmatic, \ "uniquely American\" multipayer way of achieving affordable universal health care, instead of importing successful single payer models from other democratic capitalist countries which provide better health to its citizens at considerably lower costs.

    Miles Mogulescu: The Public Option in Congress Is Now a Sham. Who Cares If Lieberman Kills It? 2009

  • When enough Americans recognize that the waste and inefficiency inherent in multipayer private insurance are unnecessary, and that a government program like Medicare is far more efficient and actually interferes less in the actual provision of care, we will be on our way to creating a rational system for financing care.

    Will the Government Kill Private Health Insurance? 2009

  • Several of them have maintained substantial public/private hybrid multipayer systems.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Health Insurance and the Public Plan: Where’s The Beef? 2009

  • Even as Democrats fail to frame the issue, the failed U.S. multipayer health insurance industry that siphons hundreds of billions of health care dollars to profit and administrative costs is at the center of health reform discussion, defining the terms of the debate.

    Michele Swenson: Democrats Start With Compromise on Health Care Reform 2009

  • It bears no resemblance to the "robust" public option originally sold by its supporters as the most pragmatic, "uniquely American" multipayer way of achieving affordable universal health care, instead of importing successful single payer models from other democratic capitalist countries which provide better health to its citizens at considerably lower costs.

    Miles Mogulescu: The Public Option in Congress Is Now a Sham. Who Cares If Lieberman Kills It? 2009

  • Arcadey games have been rockin 'the boat lately, and it's a match made in heaven for people who loved Hydro Thunder in the arcades and on the Dreamcast (amongst other formats) to have their racer on the 360 with its Sega-like pad and online multipayer to ring in the nostalgia factor and provide a long-lasting multiplayer community for hardcore fans.

    Gaming Age Online | Videogame News and Reviews 2010

  • The Prez and Congress have multipayer courtesy of the American Taxpayer.

    Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines 2009

  • Yet Daschle proposes not much more than tinkering†"improving Medicare, Medicaid and the Veterans Health Administration, all examples of “single-payer health care†in which the government is the single payer for the health careâ€" while preserving the inefficient, multipayer, for-profit insurance model.

    Democracy Now! 2009

  • Yet Daschle proposes not much more than tinkering-improving Medicare, Medicaid and the Veterans Health Administration, all examples of "single-payer health care" in which the government is the single payer for the health care-while preserving the inefficient, multipayer, for-profit insurance model.

    Democracy Now! 2009

  • Yet Daschle proposes not much more than tinkering-improving Medicare, Medicaid and the Veterans Health Administration, all examples of "single-payer health care" in which the government is the single payer for the health care-while preserving the inefficient, multipayer, for-profit insurance model.

    Progressive Daily Beacon 2009

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