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The rest of the developed world affords it by paying up to 60% in taxes, like where I live, and still seeing private doctors if you don't want to wait months.
by gonmf 9y ago
The rest of the developed world affords it by paying up to 60% in taxes, like where I live, and still seeing private doctors if you don't want to wait months.
- twoodfin 9y agoAlso much lower salaries for doctors and nurses, as well as building hospitals that are more like public schools and less like luxury hotels. Certainly much of our spending is inefficient or flatly wasteful, but it would be very difficult to slice it by 20 or 40% at the stroke of a pen. Those hospitals have been built and require maintenance. Those doctors and nurses went heavily into debt for their educations, and so on.
- dboreham 9y ago> paying up to 60% in taxes, like where I live Citation required. Also are you talking about the marginal rate or effective rate?