In a single payer system, the government is mandated to provide you with health care, since you are paying for it with your taxes (or would be if your income was high enough), no exceptions.
Typical tools of such governments include:
- taxes on products which are deemed of danger to public health, for example taxes on cigarettes in the EU. The government is then mandated to invest these taxes into the health care system
- public health campaigns (ads etc.)
- age restrictions, as they exist on alcohol in the US.
Legislation shifts to represent newest advances in science, yes. That's not per se a bad thing.
Not every country with a single-payer system is an authoritarian communist hellscape, you know.
In a single payer system, the government is mandated to provide you with health care, since you are paying for it with your taxes (or would be if your income was high enough), no exceptions.
Typical tools of such governments include:
- taxes on products which are deemed of danger to public health, for example taxes on cigarettes in the EU. The government is then mandated to invest these taxes into the health care system
- public health campaigns (ads etc.)
- age restrictions, as they exist on alcohol in the US.
Legislation shifts to represent newest advances in science, yes. That's not per se a bad thing.
Not every country with a single-payer system is an authoritarian communist hellscape, you know.