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The Hated US Healthcare System Is Why Government Shouldn’t Be Run Like a Business

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Thom Hartmann is a talk-show host and the author of 'The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream' (2020); 'The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America' (2019); and more than 25 other books in print.

The recent assassination of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare—the health insurance company with, reportedly, the highest rate of claims rejections —gives us a perfect window to understand the stupidity and danger of the Musk/Trump/Ramaswamy strategy of “cutting government” to “make it more efficient, run it like a corporation.

The area where their success is most visible, though, is the American healthcare system. Because the desire of right-wing billionaires not to pay taxes have prevailed ever since then-President Harry Truman first proposed single-payer healthcare like most of the rest of the world has, Americans spend significantly more on healthcare than other developed countries.In 2022, citizens of the United States spent an estimated $12,742 per person on healthcare, the highest among wealthy nations.

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