Single Payer

The idea of the government not actually providing a public service, but paying private firms to do so.

aka Single Payor

Typically discussed in terms of HealthCare, maybe applicable to Educating Kids?

It is typically espoused as a change from a mix of public-paid and private-paid services (e.g. current USA HealthCare market structure) based on hopes of reducing administration costs.

• article on the HealthCareForAll California organization

• a proposal published in JAMA (the AMA is against it)

• hard questions about the efficiency of insurers

• Al Gore [support](http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/The Note_Special2.html)

Arianna Huffington on applying it to Educating Kids.