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Single-payer healthcare is a strategy employed by governments to achieve several goals, including universal health care, decreased economic burden of health care, and improved health outcomes for the population. Universal health care worldwide is a goal established by the World Health Organization in 2010 and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

A single-payer health system establishes one health risk pool comprised of the entire population of the geographic or political region it covers. It also establishes one set of rules for services offered, reimbursement rates, drug prices, and minimum standards for required services.

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