Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See payer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Law), rare See payer.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Healthcare, medical insurance The maker of a payment.

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Examples

  • But then again doesn't everyone have pad costs unless the tax payor is footing the bill??

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  • So until Obama's administration buys every company doing business in the United States and your paycheck says that the payor is the US Government, then you can call it Socialism which he can't do without the Congress and Senate passing the bill.

    Avlon: 'Wingnut' in desperate bid for attention 2009

  • Specifically, FPHCI does not include dividends received by a CFC from a payor corporation that satisfies all of the following three requirements: • The payor is a corporation that is a related person to the CFC; • The payor is created or organized under the laws of the same foreign country as the CFC; and• A substantial part of the payor's assets is used in a trade or business located in the payor's country of incorporation (which also is the CFC's country of incorporation).

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  • Specifically, FPHCI does not include dividends received by a CFC from a payor corporation that satisfies all of the following three requirements: • The payor is a corporation that is a related person to the CFC; • The payor is created or organized under the laws of the same foreign country as the CFC; and• A substantial part of the payor's assets is used in a trade or business located in the payor's country of incorporation (which also is the CFC's country of incorporation).

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows Umling 2010

  • When he says there should be a single-payor plan for "all Americans" is he including himself, the rest of congress and the President and all of their families?

    House Democrat: Health care bill in doubt without public plan 2009

  • There needs to be a single payor system, not just a public option. thomas lybbert

    Kennedy 'expected more of us' on health care, Dodd says 2009

  • Health care (and insurance) costs have been rising for two primary reasons – the tax exempt status of employer provided health benefits that encourages third-party payor systems which feed the tragedy of the commons dilemma, combined with the aging population that (given the foregoing externality) has little monetary incentive to individually curb health care consumption because the costs of the individual health care decisions are spread out among many similatly-situated persons.

    Matthew Yglesias » Constitutional Objections to Health Reform 2010

  • We have higher mortality rates for infants, the poor and people of color and lower life expectancy rates than single payor countries with socialized health care.

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  • But insurers would not go out of business and there would be no sudden conversion to single payor because most people get (and would continue to get) their health insurance through work.

    Matthew Yglesias » Americans Support Health Reform, Reject Policies to Make Health Reform Workable 2010

  • Apparently those are the same people as single payor advocates.

    Matthew Yglesias » All Deficit Reduction Plans Involve Promises About Future Action 2010

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