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It amazing that the US spends almost as much taxes on health care as Canada but don't get any free health care for it!
by wvenable 9y ago
It amazing that the US spends almost as much taxes on health care as Canada but don't get any free health care for it!
- nerfhammer 9y agoIt spends more than Canada IIRC. If you add private spending in it's more than twice that of total Canadian healthcare spending.
- briandear 9y agoMedicaid is a massive program. And it's "free" to the legitimately poor. It's a myth that the poor don't have health care in the US.
- wvenable 9y agoThat doesn't really change the point -- The US pays more to give the poor health care than most countries pay to give everyone care.
- oculusthrift 9y agohow disconnected are you? i personally know poor families with tens of thousands in debt because someone in their family got cancer.
- ocschwar 9y agoThe thing is, Medicaid would be cheaper if instead of verifying income eligibility and having a long application process, we just enrolled everyone. It sucks enough to make sure middle class people will still get their own insurance, just because so many doctors won't take it, so letting anyone use Medicaid would lower the cost of administering the program.