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The Canadian plan also helps Canadians live longer and healthier than Americans. . . . We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan, as many individual states are doing.
— Donald Trump, The America We Deserve (2000)
The new American Health Care Act has been unveiled, and critics are calling it
more flawed even than the Obamacare it was meant to replace. Dubbed "Ryancare" or "Trumpcare" (
over the objection of White House staff), the Republican health care bill is under attack from left and right, with even conservative leaders
calling it "Obamacare Lite", "bad policy", a "warmed-over substitute," and "dead on arrival."
The problem for both administrations is that they have been trying to fund a bloated, inefficient, and overpriced medical system with scarce taxpayer funds,
without capping its costs. US healthcare costs in 2016 averaged $10,345 per person, for a total of $3.35 trillion dollars, a full 18 percent of the entire economy, twice as much as in other industrialized countries.
Ross Perot, who ran for president in 1992,
had the right idea: he said
all we have to do is to look at other countries that have better health care at lower cost and copy them.
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