We pay more PER PERSON in taxes for healthcare. Me, you and everyone else gets a higher percentage of our incomes, sales taxes ect that goes to paying for just medicaid and medicare. So the size of our population is irrelevant.
The size of our government? What do you mean exactly? And what does the size of the gvoernment have to do with the subject matter at hand?
Their taxes are not much higher than ours. But the higher taxes they have actually is spent more on education and other programs to help the citizens. But in terms of how much a Canadian pays on average for total socialized healthcare that is free for everyone in the country is less than I pay as an American citizen and get nothing in return.
And where did you hear that fact about senior citizens? Its demonstrably false. Everyone gets free healthcare in Canada and obviously the senior citizens use it more but that is only because they need it more than younger citizens on average. So I have no idea where you got this idea from.
-Can us, and our government, afford Europe and Canadas national health care?No.
-Size does matter, wth are you people smoking?
-I maintain condos in Broward County and guess who populates them in season. The Canadians do and majority of them are from Quebec. I've talked to them and many of their children who often visit and are not to much older than me. They come over here to spend money, and do so happily. They also always drive down here, which does suggest that they aren't broke and clearly have money.
The kids always come off as struggling whilst the parents, though retired, come off as financially secure. One dude in particular convinced me that the youth in quebec, mainly in the cities, will never benefit off the system like their parents did which suggests the system is on the decline in general. Their children have told me how they along with many of their friends are often stuck in their houses and could never move. They say its so expensive that nobody can move, suggesting that generations usually are stuck in cities and often in the same houses they were raised in. The parents also ALWAYS complain about their healthcare. Especially if its medically over something the insurance companies won't pay for here in the us which means mid-vacation they have to travel back to Canada just for care. It upsets them because they'll usually be gone awhile and miss the rest of their 6-8 month vacation.
Our country is too large to financially adopt these socialized systems both Canada and Europe have adopted. If your going to throw the 'size doesn't matter' argument, then you really underestimate how large the US is and its place in the world today. ATM we cannot afford it.
-We pay more for our healthcare? Maybe you do, but I don't.
I pay 200$ every time I go to the MDNow right down the street.
Why do I pay anything upfront when usually I should have insurance?
Because me, my father, and my sisster lost our healthcare policies due to Obama Care. We got dropped, and apparently a hundred thousands + of Floridians alone also got dropped. Given Im rarely sick, Its not a big deal for me right now. In the few scenarios however where I had to go to the ER which costed 1000$ + depending on the situation, I never paid that up front. I mail them 20$ a month, and probably will be doing so for a awhile, and thats without having health insurance. Ill take that over gas prices x2 given Im constantly driving between broward and palm beach. I also smoke, so ill take that over 2x the price for a pack of cigarettes. Ill take it over their education system thats a tiny turd in comparison to ours, to which would never benefit us moreover than it being privatized.
Ontop of it all, I very mush dislike government. I view it as its own entity. I view it as its own monster. Therefore Why would I want government to control anything? All I have heard is the negative about socialized countries, and the conditions needed for it to thrive but No ones thriving.
