Clinton, Sanders debate single-payer but what does it mean?

Government Health IT: Health care has emerged as one of the flash points in the Democratic presidential race.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has been a longtime supporter of a concept he calls "Medicare for All," a health system that falls under the heading of "single-payer."

Sanders released more details about his proposal shortly before the Democratic debate in South Carolina Sunday night. "What a Medicare-for-All program does is finally provide in this country health care for every man, woman and child as a right," he said in Charleston.

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