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Summary
This image shows how the term single payer relates to the four main types of health care systems. Systems that are only funded by the government are true single payer systems. Actual systems that fall to the left half of the vertical axis are often referred to as single payer systems because they are primarily financed by the government. Single payer health insurance and socialized medicine are types of health care systems that are single payer.