for more on the economic impact of the war in the u.s., former trump economic advisor, stephen joins us now and the cofounder of the committee to unleash prosperity the idea, stephen, of taking away a gas tax just to make gas 30 cents or so whatever it is a gallon cheaper, does that help? is effective? it will help a little bit, no question but let s not forget the gas price since biden has come into office has gone up in most states over $2 a gallon so will 25 or 30 cents help? temporarily yes but i would describe that as a band-aid on a heart attack system, the central problem is the united states is not producing enough oil and gas
land, and it s going to happen. and it s going to make things better. there is going to be lower costs, more transparency, kids can stay on their parents health insurance until they re adults. but the truth is, people should push for national health care. and i think we should make sarah palin right. i think that we should look at our heart attack system and say you know what, we can do better than this, and even better than the affordable care act. and in those 26 states where republican governors have decided not to allow medicaid expansion and we have 8 million people who are too poor to qualify for the affordable care act, and can t be covered, they need to push hard and we need to push hard on their behalf. and i think, you know, we can do better than this as a country. it s a lie that the american health care system is better than the rest of the developed world. in fact, we spend a third of every health care dollar on administration. it s very inefficient and we have a lot of u