DCHP-2

user-pay DCHP-2 (May 2016)

• adj. — often used in compounds, as in user-pay program and user-pay system

  financing of particular services via user fees.

  Type: 5. Frequency — According to internet domain searches (see Charts 1 and 2), user-pay is most prevalent in Canada when used as part of a compounds noun such as user-pay program and user-pay system. Chart 3 demonstrates a third variant, user-pay principle, which is most prevalent in Canada, but still has a great deal of currency in South Africa. In South Africa, the term is often used in reference to toll roads. Note that all US hits are negligibly low.
  See also COD-2, s.v. "user-pay", which is marked "esp. Cdn".

  • 1956  While approving all roads in principle "as an expedient [...] enable the state to build high-cost expressways... quickly on a user-pay system." 
  • 1970  "Either we can postpone development, or we can shift plans to a fair and equitable but nevertheless larger user-pay basis." 
  • 1978  Mr. Timbrell said he would not dismiss a user-pay formula for health care entirely "as something we may look into in the future," but added that the Government has no active plans to institute the system or even the bulk of the recommendations until after there has been more discussion by other interested groups and the public. 
  • 1989  Autoplan is a user-pay system where the cost of insurance is driven entirely by the number and cost of claims. 
  • 1999  He said alternatives to boost recycling would include user-pay garbage disposal and an expansion of the blue box to apartment buildings, many of which do not participate in the program. 
  • 2008  Hopkins explained that in 2007, the city went from including sewer costs within the municipal tax assessment to a direct user-pay system. 
  • 2008  Why not replace the broad carbon tax with a more specific user-pay initiative - a toll on new highways? 
  • 2016  "Thirty months ago, Beaconsfield was second-worst on the island of Montreal for sending waste to the landfill," Bourelle said. "Thanks to the introduction of a user-pay waste management program, we have now become second-best."