We would look to some of the definitions around single payer, and specifically coordination of benefits. If you have a spouse, you might be familiar with a pharmacist having to coordinate and first apply to one spouse's plan and then coordinate with the other spouse's plan so that you don't have to pay out of pocket, but doing so in a way that the private plan is charged first. The public plan picks up the remainder of the difference, if there is one. If you don't have coverage, then the public plan would jump in first.
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