eAlert Fri, 10/19/2018 - 12:00

Single-payer health care has been making headlines in the United States. But how many people know how it actually works?

Join host Shanoor Seervai for a new episode of The Dose — the Commonwealth Fund's health policy podcast — to learn about New Zealand’s single-payer health system. Robin Gauld, professor of health policy at the University of Otago Business School in Dunedin, New Zealand, talks with Seervai about how people pay for and access care, as well as how doctors operate within the system.

Gauld explains how New Zealand handles wait times, health care disparities, and the one-third of New Zealanders who carry private insurance in addition to their public coverage.

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The Dose NZ Small Listen now The Dose, Episode Three: Single Payer in New Zealand