'The David Frum Show': Why American Health Care Is Still a Mess - The Atlantic

There's other disparities in terms of access to health-care providers, which are also important, but the fundamental disparity is people who are uninsured don't get the care they need to maintain their health. 

Frum: Americans don't like comparing their way of doing things to anybody else. And when they do compare, the comparison they typically will most often make is to my native Canada, partly because it's next door and speaks English, and partly because it's a system as different from the United States just about as there is in the developed world, so you get a very extreme compare and contrast—very different from what you would do if you compared it to, say, Switzerland or Germany. But how do other countries approach these things? What do they do right that Americans could learn from if Americans were ever minded to learn from anybody? 

Gruber: I think, fundamentally, they do two different things, and this comes to, really, debate over single payer. Let's step back and talk about Bernie [Sanders] and single payer. Okay, what is single-payer health care? It really is three different pieces. The first piece, the one we talk about the most and that's the least important, is having one single payer. The second piece is universal coverage. That's something that other countries do right—most countries in the world do right—and that's something we should do. The third piece, which we don't talk about nearly enough, is regulating health-care prices. We're the only developed country in the world which lets the free market determine the prices we pay for health care. Health care is a broken market. The free market should not be determining the prices. There should be government regulation to help determine the prices. Every other country in the world's learned that lesson; we have not...

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2025/12/the-david-frum-show-jonathan-gruber-health-care/685126/ 

 

Trump’s big announcement ends in DISASTER | Another Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4224FMiQdw4

Private health insurance exists in Europe and Canada. Here’s how it works. - Vox

The debate over eliminating health insurance is actually offering a false choice...
https://www.vox.com/health-care/2019/2/12/18215430/single-payer-private-health-insurance-harris-sanders

Blue-state governors are picking up where Obamacare left off - Vox

From single payer to public options, Democratic leaders have ambitious plans to expand coverage. ....
https://www.vox.com/health-care/2019/1/10/18175331/single-payer-public-option-newsom-inslee-deblasio

White House anti-socialism report inadvertently makes a case for single-payer - Vox

The Trump administration says this chart is a case against single-payer. Actually, it's a case for it. ....
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/23/18014026/trump-socialism-single-payer

Majority of Republicans supports 'Medicare for all,' poll finds - The Hill

More than half of Republicans in a new American Barometer poll say they support "Medicare for all," also known as a single-payer health-care system. ....
https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/412552-majority-of-republicans-say-the-support-medicare-for-all-poll

This chart explains why Americans are so angry about health care - Vox

And why they're becoming more open to the idea of single-payer. ...
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/5/17943078/chart-americans-angry-health-care

Jim Carrey Explains Universal Health Care - YouTube

Jim Carrey grew up in Canada and wants to set the record straight about Canadian health care....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr4l-EN_-Qg

Healthcare Policy with Dr. Richard Schloss (Thomas Smith, Serious Inquiries Only, SIO156)

Joining me today is physician and president of Long Island Atheists, Dr. Richard Schloss! We talk about his background, the secular group he leads, and then go on to talk about healthcare policy in the US. Dr. Schloss takes us through some history on healthcare and answers basics like what are the differences between Medicare for All and Single Payer, etc.
Interview:
https://seriouspod.com/sio156-healthcare-policy-with-dr-richard-schloss-2/

This Rational Doctor Believes in Single-Payer Health Care

This rational American doctor understands that guaranteeing health care to every man, woman and child in this country isn’t such a radical idea after all....
https://youtu.be/q_qcvRPxrWY

Does Bernie Sanders’s health plan cost $33 trillion — or save $2 trillion? - The Washington Post

Democrats and Republicans are reading the same libertarian study very, very differently. ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/does-bernie-sanderss-health-plan-cost-33-trillion--or-save-2-trillion/2018/07/31/d178b14e-9432-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html

Democrats are shifting toward single-payer. Here’s proof. -- Vox

A key, center-left think tank now leans toward Sanders on health care. ....
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/23/17041638/single-payer-medicare-extra-health

The Leap to Single-Payer: What Taiwan Can Teach - The New York Times

How one nation transformed a health care system. Can America do big things anymore?....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/26/upshot/the-leap-to-single-payer-what-taiwan-can-teach.html?em_pos=medium&emc=edit_up_20180103&nl=upshot&nl_art=7&nlid=78638145&ref=headline&te=1

My cousins child birth bill from the hospital in the USA. Never seen anything this high - pics

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7hi8g2/my_cousins_child_birth_bill_from_the_hospital_in/

What it costs to give birth in Sweden vs USA. - pics

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7hgwwu/what_it_costs_to_give_birth_in_sweden_vs_usa/

A copy of the bill we got when our daughter was born in Canada. - pics

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7himr9/a_copy_of_the_bill_we_got_when_our_daughter_was/

Single Payer Opponents Say The Transition Process Would Be Too Difficult. But 10,000 People Do It Every Day. -- The Intercept

Opponents of single payer health care frequently claim that such a system might be wonderful in theory, but getting there would be too disruptive. Many Americans, the argument goes, have private health insurance coverage and the transition to a government plan would be jarring. ...
https://theintercept.com/2017/10/09/new-medicare-recipients-bernie-sanders-health-care/

Medicare for All: A Quick Guide to the Bernie Sanders Universal Health Care Plan | Alternet

It's single-payer, not a public option....
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/medicare-all-quick-guide-bernie-sanders-universal-health-care-plan

Here's what's wrong with the U.S. health care system -- PBS NewsHour: Column

It's worth re-examining some of the fundamental flaws of United States' current health care system, and why adopting a single-payer model makes the most sense. ....
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/column-heres-whats-wrong-u-s-health-care-system/

GOP Senator Wants To Block States From Setting Up Single-Payer Systems -- HuffPost

Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said Tuesday that he's so opposed to the idea of a single-payer health care system that he's trying to block California or any other Democratic state from setting up such a system. ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-kennedy-single-payer-states-rights_us_59c15b89e4b0f22c4a8d1ce7