Scalpel takes on health care

Making some sense of American health care in the first of a multi-part series:

So why does American health care cost so much? Because it is the best. Why do our poor people have limited access to health care? Because they can’t afford it. If we gave it all away, we wouldn’t have the best quality healthcare anymore. Other countries ration healthcare by making everyone wait for it equally. That’s why wealthy Canadians fly down here to get their hips replaced and upper-class Brits fly over here to get treatment for their breast cancer. They don’t want to wait. We ration care by limiting access to those who can’t pay for it.

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