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England has a single-payer (the NHS) and a population of 53m people. So I guess the answer is England?
by spangry 10y ago
England has a single-payer (the NHS) and a population of 53m people. So I guess the answer is England?
- chimeracoder 10y ago> England has a single-payer (the NHS) and a population of 53m people. So I guess the answer is England? GP was being rhetorical, but if you really want to know, Medicare has 55 million beneficiaries in the US.
- refurb 10y agoNope. Medicare has 55.3M beneficiaries.[1] [1]http://www.ncpssm.org/Medicare/MedicareFastFacts http://www.ncpssm.org/Medicare/MedicareFastFacts
- dragonwriter 10y ago57 million, but that oncludes 17.6 million that are in third-party at-risk plans where Medicare is just paying a portion of the premiums (Medicare Advantage), not traditional "single payer" Medicare, so don't count in Medicare's negotiating power. So there's just under 40 million in traditional Medicare. http://kff.org/medicare/fact-sheet/medicare-advantage/ http://kff.org/medicare/fact-sheet/medicare-advantage/
- refurb 10y agoYou need to be careful with that definition. For prescription drugs, Medicare just pays premiums to private insurers under Part D. Following your logic, Medicare has zero negotiating power for those drugs.
- foldr 10y agoThe NHS is for the whole of the UK, which is 64 million people.
- foldr 10y agoThe NHS is for the whole of the UK, which has a population of 64 million.
- desas 10y agoTechnically there are four different NHS', one for each nation in Britain. Wales, Scotland and NI each report to their government rather than Westminster.
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