If you have Medicare and other health insurance or coverage, each type of coverage is called a payer.. When there's more than one payer,  coordination of benefits  rules decide which one pays first. The primary payer pays what it owes on your bills first, and then sends the rest to the secondary payer to pay.
Shadow government may refer to: 1  A government run by an unelected bureaucracy, also known as a deep state or state within a state. 2  A conspiracy theory of a secret government, see Shadow government (conspiracy).
Responsible government is a term which is used to refer to two elements of parliamentary government in British derived parliamentary systems.irst, the government â the premier or prime minister and all the ministers who make up a ministry â is accountable to the lower house of parliament (see assembly). A government must maintain majority support in the lower house; loss of that support means that the government must resign.