America’s single-payer health system, The Indian Health Service, is in dire need of reform:
Inadequacies in coverage, care and facilities are so great that the Census Bureau’s current population survey does not consider American Indian and Alaska Natives “covered” under IHS - more than a third of American Indian and Alaska Natives went without suitable coverage in 2004.
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The IHS is ONE OF America’s single-payer systems. Others would include:
Medicare
Medicaid
Military Health Care
The VA
Kaiser
Of course none of these are actual “single payer” systems because there are several of them.
And they all suck.