countries, developed economies with similarly advanced health systems. when it comes to quality of care, the u.s. ranks fifth out of 11. britain is number one. when it comes to access to care, the u.s. is number nine. again, britain is number one. when it comes to health care equity, people receiving similar care regardless of income or geography, the u.s. is dead last among peer nations. sweden is number one. and this one is crucial, when it comes to healthy lives that people lead, the u.s. is again last on the list. france is number one. overall health care in the u.s. ranks last among its peers. britain with its public single payer system ranks number one. switzerland with its private insurance system but guaranteed coverage for all comes in at number two. take your pick, public or private. this appears to be a correlation between universal coverage and health outcomes. and on one crucial measurement
i happen to be one that thinks we can go much higher than 3%. yet annual growth is still below that, in line with the general trend going back to the 1990s. i think if we continue to create jobs at levels that i m creating jobs, i think that s going to have a tremendous impact. 1.7 million jobs have been added to the u.s. economy since the president took office, and unemployment has fallen to just 4.1%, the lowest in 17 years. still, wages have room to grow. they re only up 2.5% year over year, not much of an improvement. more dramatic is the 33% climb in the stock market since donald trump was elected to office. under this pro america system, our economy boomed. but the fact is the president inherited an already booming economy. anyway, the stock market is a
system, if you don t want a medicare for all type system, switzerland is entirely commercial privatized system where the only requirement is that everybody has insurance. but switzerland and the united states are not a comparison. it s not all of europe versus the united states. the population of switzerland is roughly the size of the population of new york city. right. so to scale what they re doing here, it s just not a one-to-one. right, i agree. but we re the only rich country that isn t doing something about it, so there are lots of approaches to universality. i m biased about this. i grew up in canada. it s a system that actually works despite the things you hear about canadians coming to the united states for health care, it s not really true. the point is when we looked at some of those outcomes like the age at which you die, could be a lot of other things involved in that. when you look at that, it could be americans work longer hours, we take less vacation, we eat m
we have trillion dollar deficits. he s going to raise taxes. he s taken over car companies, banks and the america system. the american left is very, very hard to please. i think his bigger problem is not on the left. it s in the center. the story of 2010 is that the president has lost the center. and that s why more than anything else, his party is on the run and why it looks like right now, republicans are going to have a very good year this year in november. well, and david, that s the hard political fact is the fact that the middle is where people get elected and if the middle is leaning more to the right, that s bad for a guy who is way to the left. well, sure. if the needle is pointing in that direction right now, that doesn t mean it will be pointing in that direction in november. there s a lot of time between now and the elections and frank s right. the election will, you know, fall on where the moderates end up voting. and i think what the president will do and you can bet