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He used to say Canada’s health care was risky. Now he says it’s the future.

A Canadian and American might share more in common than any two foreigners – except when it comes to health care.

Americans routinely fear Canada’s universal, single-payer system as a socialist regime of endless waits; Canadians look in equal panic upon American insurance policies and its patchwork of copayments and premiums.

Wendell Potter is a big reason why.

And the former American health insurance executive, amid a deadly pandemic that has hit the U.S. per capita much harder, revealed in a recent tweet his role in keeping that gulf as gaping as possible.

Editor’s note: As

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