Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a program for people who enjoy problem solving more than recreational outrage.

And probably, I'm just going to wager here, more than reality television.

Although if Kim Kardashian is in fact watching, I'm a big fan of your criminal justice reform efforts and would love to have you on for a policy discussion.

Also, might be fun to talk to the cast of The Bachelor about the carbon tax. Maybe next year. Either way, I'm your host Andrew Heaton, and while I'm not a doctor, I have played one in multiple

Bollywood and Indian American films. True fact. More on that later. And today we're

going to talk about health care. More specifically, how to Rick Unger and I fix

American health care in about an hour. Can we do it? Can we do it and

do it so well that we get a Nobel Prize in podcasting. Almost certainly. You're going to see two main perspectives

spooling out on today's program and I think they are emblematic of the two schools

of thought in American health care policy.

One school of thought once publicly funded health care to ensure everybody gets a doctor when they need one.

The other one wants competition to increase access and affordability.

Or in other words, one school would like more government. to increase access and affordability.

Or in other words, one school would like more government,

like Canada, and the other wants markets to lower prices

to where you wouldn't need the government.

And overall, most Americans want some combination of these two approaches.

It's actually pretty rare to find an extreme on either end of that.

Let's also clear up the difference between universal health care and single payer health care, which are

oftentimes used interchangeably. Universal health care just means everybody in the

country gets a doctor. Single pair health care means the government pays for

stuff. So not all countries with universal health care are

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