Single-payer health care describes any country in which the government is effectively the sole insurance company: the âsingle payerâ of health insurance claims. Socialized health care describes a country in which the government owns the entire health care systemânot just the insurance companies, but also the hospitals, the nursing homes, and the doctorsâ offices.
An element is a pure substance that is made from a single type of atom. Elements are the building blocks for all the rest of the matter in the world. Examples of elements include iron, oxygen, hydrogen, gold, and helium. Atomic Number. An important number in an element is the atomic number.
: to be formed or made up of (specified things or people) 1  Breakfast consisted of cereal, fruit, and orange juice. 2  Coal consists mostly of carbon. 3  His wardrobe consists almost entirely of jeans and T-shirts.  The crowd consisted mainly/largely of teenage 1  girls. The job mainly consists of classifying evidence.