Investigative journalist and author Dave Lindorff explains on Democracy Now! that the Trump administration’s drive to bring back manufacturing and other jobs outsourced in past decades ignores the role high-priced U.S. healthcare plays in the cost of doing business here.

“The fact that we don’t have national healthcare here like they have in Canada … is making American industry not competitive,” says Lindorff. Listen to the program here.

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