multipayer
adjEtymology From multi- + payer.
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Government, Healthcare Involving payment by more than one party.
- Single-payer systems tend to rely heavily on general tax revenues, whereas multipayer systems generally employ payroll-tax financing.2004, Martin A. Levin, Martin M. Shapiro, Transatlantic policymaking in an age of austerity: diversity and drift, page 17:
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