In which John Green compares the healthcare plans of U.S. Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. For more information about health and health care policy, check out Health Care Triage: https://www.youtube.com/user/thehealthcaretriage SOURCES & FURTHER READING:
Rand’s analysis of the reform proposals of Clinton and Trump are nicely summarized here: http://www.rand.org/blog/2016/09/estimating-the-impacts-of-the-trump-and-clinton-health.html
Full analysis of Hillary Clinton’s plan (who is the Democratic party’s nominee) can be found here: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Publications/Issue-Briefs/2016/Sep/Clinton-Presidential-Health-Care-Proposal
And full analysis of Donald Trump’s plan (who is the Republican party’s nominee) can be found here: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Publications/Issue-Briefs/2016/Sep/Trump-Presidential-Health-Care-Proposal
Understanding the Healthcare System of the United States: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN-MkRcOJjY
Why Are American Health Care Costs So High? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSjGouBmo0M
The Kaiser Family Foundation explains the high cost of health care in the United States compared to other rich nations: http://kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/snapshots-health-care-spending-in-the-united-states-selected-oecd-countries/
And this series explores health care outcomes in the U.S. vs. other rich nations: http://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/how-does-the-quality-of-the-u-s-healthcare-system-compare-to-other-countries/?slide=1
The Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) has resulted in a significant drop in the uninsured population in the U.S. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/17/obamacare-brings-record-low-for-us-health-uninsured-rate.html Fuller data and complete report here: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/insur201605.pdf
A single-payer health care system would not, in and of itself, magically bring costs in the U.S. down to 10% of GPD, as explained by Aaron Carroll here: http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/single-payer-is-not-sufficient/
Trump’s plan to allow insurance companies to sell policies across state lines is extremely controversial among health policy experts: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/01/upshot/the-problem-with-gop-plans-to-sell-health-insurance-across-state-lines.html
The Wikipedia article on Health care in the United States is also excellent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States
And lastly, this comparison tool from the Commonwealth Fund is pretty cool. It allows you to see side-by-side what Clinton and Trump have proposed to deal with various problems with the health care system: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/interactives/2016/sep/comparing-candidates-health-proposals/
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Huge thanks to Rosianna (http://youtube.com/rosianna) for graphics and to Aaron Carroll (https://www.youtube.com/user/thehealthcaretriage) for fact-checking. Any errors are my own.
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