Why American Health Care Is Still a Mess

And some of them are so familiar that we’ve stopped even mentioning them, like in October, the Republican majority of the Senate voted down a Democratic proposal not to finance the Qatari jet—remember that—that the Pentagon accepted on Trump’s behalf and that the taxpayer is now spending hundreds of millions of dollars to outfit for Trump and that, according to the terms of the gift, are to be taken with Donald Trump to his so-called presidential library, but for his use after he ceases to be president. Frum: So what do you make of the claim that you sometimes hear that one of the reasons that American health care costs so much more than health care in Switzerland or Germany or Norway is that everybody in the American health-care system, except for the people at the very bottom—like, the health-care attendants at the very bottom—but everyone else, from the executives, doctors, even the nurses, are all paid much more than their counterparts in other countries? Now, even if the Trump administration’s claims are true that these boats are indeed carrying drugs, and even if the claims are true and the allegations are true that all the people on board the boats are involved in the drug trafficking, even if all of that is true, the United States does not kill alleged drug traffickers in cold blood on the high seas—or, at least, it didn’t used to.

Author: David Frum

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