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The essential feature of Obamacare was Obama himself, sold to us as a juris doctor, highly educated, charismatic, and kind. His most important trait was that he was half black, which released the virtue-signaling passions of liberals to vote and support him as some sort of demigod who could do no wrong, The One. Obamacare in any other form – McCaincare, Trumpcare, Bidencare, would have been dead in the water. Obama’s being a black man triggered release of the largest tax increase in history, and some of the largest subsidies ever given the private sector.

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The American health care system is easily the most expensive in the world, and one of the least efficient. It all goes back to the end of World War II, when progressive ideas were in vogue in most of the world, though not here. Countries around the world adopted various kinds of health care systems:

• Great Britain chose a government-owned and run system where all costs are subsidized and doctors and nurses are employed by the national health care system. Coverage is effectively 100%. All injuries and illnesses are covered.
• Switzerland chose a private insurance model, but heavily regulated the insurance companies, insisting that they turn no one away. Coverage is effectively 100%. All injuries and illnesses are covered.
• France chose single payer insurance, that is, there is only one insurance “company,” the government. Coverage is effectively 100%, all injuries and illnesses are covered. At one time France was reputed to be the least costly and most efficient system in the world. I have not looked lately, as my “research” for this piece is limited to what I did around the time of the Affordable Care Act, aka “Obamacare”.
• Canada chose single-payer as well. Its system is not as effective as that of France, and there are many complaints about long waits, mostly in Ontario.
• Taiwan was a late comer to public health care. Its US-like private system was strained and inefficient, and many people went without coverage. The government decided to go public, and wanted to learn from a system called “Medicare.” That is not the US health care system for senior citizens, but rather the official name of the Canadian health care system. That became the Taiwanese model.
• The U.S. chose private care given by private doctors and funded by private insurance companies. It was a mess, and senior citizens were losing their life savings due to medical bills. The problem was that private insurance would not cover seniors citizens, or made the coverage so expensive that few could afford it. In 1965 the U.S. Medicare sytem was formed, and all seniors in the country automatically gained coverage.

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