When H. Ross Perot was running for President in 1992, he had a solution to our health care issue. He said we should look at countries that have better health care at lower cost and copy them.
An article in the on-line publication Global Research notes that all industrialized countries have better health care at lower cost than the U.S. However, there is more than one system we could copy.
The article notes that T. R. Reid in The Healing of America discusses three models: the “Bismarck model” in Germany, where health providers and insurers are private, but insurers are not allowed to make a profit; the “Beveridge model” of Britain, where most healthcare providers are government employees and the government acts as the single payer for all health services; and the Canadian model, a single-payer health system in which the healthcare providers are mostly private.
And then there is Trumpcare, which is pretty much based on the system that rich people get wonderful health care and poor people die.
I am grateful to Tom M., a reader who called my attention to the Global Research article. If you wish to read the whole article, you can find it at <http://www.globalresearch.ca/trumpcare-dead-on-arrival-can-we-please-now-try-single-payer/5579933>.
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