The pre-existing dysfunction of American health care

‘Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated,’ U.S. President Trump said in February. Nobody, or just him?

Barack Obama's 2010 health-care bill was the closest thing to a 'public option' that could be passed in the U.S., argues Lisa Van Dusen.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

May 3, 2017

For Canadians who thought debates over the byzantine and uniquely inefficient American health-care system ended on March 23, 2010 when then-president Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, the weeks since Donald Trump was inaugurated have been an eye opener. After years of symbolic v...

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