From a Canadian perspective Trump is wrong on the efficiency of a single payer system. It looks good in theory but once put into practice, it is an utter waste and the bureaucracies that are instituted to maintain the machine are abhorrent. Keep in mind that in Canada, healthcare is the purview of the province and not the federal gov’t. Provinces receive transfer payments from the federal government and the provinces are responsible for the budgeting and cost. Since there is no competitive marketplace to control or reduce costs, healthcare is in effect they are always out of control and thus rationing occurs. So no Universal healthcare is not the panacea that Trump thinks it is. Bref. A national healthcare system will only create a federalized bureaucracy that will only be be-holdened to itself and unionized and be inevitably an arm of the democratic party. New York Values Baby!!
“From a Canadian perspective Trump is wrong on the efficiency of a single payer system. It looks good in theory but once put into practice, it is an utter waste and the bureaucracies that are instituted to maintain the machine are abhorrent.”
I fully understand. I am both an Israeli and USA citizen and grew up in Israel, so I grew up with mandated healthcare.
Even in Israel with an overabundance of doctors (insert Jewish joke here), you really need to rely on private insurance/doctors to get quality.