Better yet would be a single public provider with democratic feedback loops built in.

The park is the largest single provider of summer jobs in Westchester, he said, offering roughly 1,000 seasonal positions.

Churches are the country's single largest provider of center-based day care.

Public health experts agree that relying on a single provider for crucial vaccines is risky.

"Having a single provider is at the heart of the consolidation."

University Hospital is also the state's single largest provider of charity care.

Industry experts say no single provider can yet cover the entire country.

And as many as seven plans for buying cellular service may be offered by a single provider in a metropolitan area.

"This proposed acquisition might result in only a single major provider for this important and growing area."

Many states in the United States, after all, still restrict local services to a single provider.