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Inertia, probably. Any gradual change adds to the bloat; any radical change is rejected out of fear, or maybe ideological concerns. Not picking a fight here, j
by Brendinooo 9y ago
Inertia, probably. Any gradual change adds to the bloat; any radical change is rejected out of fear, or maybe ideological concerns.
Not picking a fight here, just curious: another person commented on my original post noting that when I said my first birth didn't cost us anything, that wasn't true - my wife's employer paid a fair amount for her insurance.
Are your taxes broken out in the UK? Do you know how much you pay a year for healthcare?
- rupertj 9y agoUK taxpayer here. We get sent an annual summary of the tax we paid and what it paid for. It looks like this: http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02871/taxtable1_2871685b.jpg http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02871/taxtable1_...
- isostatic 9y agoFor my family it's about £2800, or $3900. My wife doesn't pay tax, but I earn in the top decile. Probably a little more due to spending on vat and other indirect taxes (petrol tax etc), call it $4200. However my parents, gran, and my mother in law combined pay under $1000 a year between them. On the other hand a premiership footballer pays about $250,000 a year for health. Plus their own private health care costs of whatever. That's the price they pay for living in our society though, a society where people aren't afraid to go to the doctors to check out that mole, or rush to give birth because they can't afford an extra day in hospital.