The Washington Post : declared in Why Republicans are so bad at health care

And the answer is pretty simple: Republicans are philosophically opposed to redistribution, but health care is all about redistribution. Health care is only a major priority for Republicans insofar as they can make it redistribute less money. The result is that they spend only about 5 percent of their GDP on health care compared with the 18 percent we do. It's a lot easier to pay for their own health care when that costs three or four times less what it does here. Now, if we could start from scratch, Republicans would like our health-care system to work the way Singapore's does.

How health care is healing Erie's ailing economy

But if the Republican health care bill goes through and Medicaid funding is slashed, economists say hospitals could lose those government health care dollars. Not surprising, given that health care has become what manufacturing used to be – Erie's biggest industry. And when Pittsburgh's two biggest health care systems — UPMC and Allegheny Health Network — needed new territory to conquer, they turned to Erie, and folded its biggest hospitals into their systems. And so far, Erie isn't paying the typical price for those jobs in more expensive health care. Erie's two big hospital systems employ nearly 7,000 people.


But what made the Kimmel moment resonate was the juxtaposition of our hopes and needs as parents in the health care system with the stark reality of the Republicans' American Health Care Act. It is a privilege to have health care," she said, then added: "Do I believe it's a human right? Jimmy Kimmel (left) and Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La. (Photo: Randy Holmes, ABC, and Jonathan Bachman, Getty Images)Every so often, a "national moment" takes us out of our day-to-day and helps shape our national thinking. In one sign of the times, after Miss USA — Kara McCullough — called health care a privilege, there was such backlash that she soon softened her words.


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