It's Saturday, July 5th. I'm Ali Valshi. In the last hour, Dean Obadallo went and told everybody I'm a naturalized American citizen. So let me tell you a little bit more about me. I grew up in Canada. That's where I was raised. It's where I went to school. It's where I started my career. I lived there for a big portion of my early life.

And so I can tell you, for all the similarities that America and Canada have, health care is not one of them.

Unlike the United States, Canada has a publicly funded universal health care system.

Canada's version is referred to as a single payer system because the government is the single payer of health insurance system. Canada's version is referred to as a single payer system because the government

is the single payer of health insurance premiums. Each province or territory in Canada

shares responsibility for covering every eligible resident of Canada, covering basic, necessary,

and preventative care. You can go to the doctor for a checkup without much of a

hassle, although like here in the United States, there is a shortage of doctors in Canada.

Or you can go to the hospital for an emergency without having to itemize in your head how much

every single pill or procedure is going to cost you. Before any of you hit send on your social

media posts, it's not a perfect system in Canada.

But in general, people receive the care that they need and they don't get stuck with bills that send them into crippling debt.

There's no such thing as medical bankruptcy in Canada.

And by the way, that's the case for nearly every developed country.

We describe those developed countries as being part of the organization for

economic cooperation and development. It's shorthand as OECD countries. They're modern, big

economies, democracies, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Sweden, even Luxembourg.

They all have a universal or near universal health care system. Everybody's entitled to get health care.

There is, in fact, just one OECD country that doesn't have some version of health care for

everybody, and that is the one we're in right now, the United States of America.

The U.S. to this day lags far behind many, many countries when it comes to providing affordable health insurance for

its people. Under America's for-profit health care system, we spend significantly more money per

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