This week I speak with Dr. Richard Bruno. You may know him as the doctor in the long, white coat from those Bernie Sanders videos on Facebook where the US Senator from Vermont takes Americans over the border to Canada to check out the healthcare system there. To me though, Richard is a friend and a former client whose campaign for State Delegate (representative) in Maryland I managed in 2018.
Dr. Bruno and I cover a range of topics under the general umbrella of American healthcare, from costs to ethics and efficiency, What's clear from our conversation however is that while there are so many arguments in favor of a universal system of healthcare coverage, there are ever fewer that support our current system - or lack thereof. No matter how you look at the issue, healthcare works better when everyone is covered and profit is subtracted from the equation,
