[Kenny]

I don’t worry about this because (a) none of them every follow through with their campaign stuff and (b) he’s been tweaking it as of late.

[Tau Food]

What Trump says is crazy, but crazy can only be outed by the competition of other ideas. When will the House or Senate bring to the floor a specific vision to compete with what Trump is saying?

[kanawa]

‘Twould be nice if the author provided a time-stamp for the statement under question so we could easily see the context.

[sparklite2]

My experience was with OHIP (Ontario’s health care system), was in the 1970s. What I got was what you get going to the US post office: unconcerned, snarky layabouts who’d rather be on coffee break than deal with patients.

[JohnBrowdie]

trumpbots coming in for a landing to insist that it doesn’t matter in 3 . . 2 . . 1 . .

[Kirkwood]

None of my Canadian friends complain about the healthcare there. However taxes to pay for it are through the roof and they complain about that.

[GeronL]

Isn’t Scotland’s health system pretty much subsidised by the English...

[Rockingham]

In fairness to Trump, his explanation of his plan is not single-payer but instead creates a single national market for health insurance. At present, health and other forms of insurance are approved and regulated on a state by state basis instead of nationally. With an exemption from anti-trust laws, this makes for inefficient and cartelized markets for insurance, driving up costs and lessening competition and innovation.

Trump calling his plan "single payer" though does not make sense, unless he also means to permit private health insurers the option of using Medicare's payments system. This would make some sense, especially if those private insurers were allowed and incentivized to root out fraudulent billings, a major problem in Medicare.

[stilloftyhenight]

This is old crap from a site co-founded by Erick Errickson.

How many times does Trump have to say allow insurance companies to compete across state lines?

[arthurus]

It doses work well for bureaucrats and politicians, unless they get sick.

[sunrise_sunset]

The life expectancy in Canada is 82 years. Obviously, their health care system is not disaster. Remembering that a lot of health care is the ability to catch stuff early on routine visits.

[Cementjungle]

A single payer system could work if it was set up properly. That means that the beneficiaries aren’t seen as the providers, but the people. The problem is the current government officials owe their souls to lobbyists from drug companies, unions, healthcare insurance lobbies, etc. Someone like Trump who doesn’t get bought by those folks could devise a proper system that actually works for the people.