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In Canada, health care cost 10.6% of GDP, in the US it cost 15.2% of GDP. Why so much more in the US?
Canada covers all it’s citizens in spite of spending a third less of GDP. America pays much more, while many millions of Americans have little or no health insurance.
Why?
And please don’t tell me that Canadians are all coming to the US for health care. Only 0.11 percent of Canadians surveyed said that they had ever gone to the US for the purpose of getting any kind of health care. That’s one Canadian in a thousand.
Of those who do go, it’s generally wealthy Canadians who simply don’t feel like waiting on ELECTIVE procedures. While it’s perfectly safe to wait for such procedures, they’ve decided not to.
Anything of an emergent nature is handled quickly in Canada.
And yes, there are isolated exceptions but you can find them as easily in the US. Private health care doesn’t insure that some people don’t fall through the cracks either.
http://cthealth.server101.com/myth_canadians%27_use_of_healthcare_in_the_u_s_.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Canada
Tell Maxwell that my full coverage healthcare in Japan costs me $125 a month.
20% more in taxes still couldn’t cost me nearly as much as his private insurer robs him of.
I think his monthly premium speaks louder than a bunch of unverified 20% income tax increase BS.
Filed under Health Insurance by on Jul 24th, 2010. 
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