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Is that sort of like bad healthcare that is not optional and forcefully taken from each salary you make when you could instead use a fraction of that healthcare

Is that sort of like bad healthcare that is not optional and forcefully taken from each salary you make when you could instead use a fraction of that healthcare tax to get a vastly superior private healthcare, and yet you're not allowed to NOT pay healthcare tax, thus if you want better healthcare you pay for it AND the private one?

bossyTeacher 2y ago
It's such an American idea to think that you will always have a job and that you will never be unfit to work before you can afford not to work
- halostatue 2y ago
  Having spent four days in the hospital recently on something and only having a $45 ambulance bill out of it without even having to think about whether going to the hospital would bankrupt me — I’ll take Canada's taxes over those in the US. We at least get value for our taxes, and (mostly) don’t have greedy US healthcare companies denying necessary coverage because it would drop their profitability by 0.001%.
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MattPalmer1086 2y ago
Please point me to anywhere that provides bad health care at vastly more cost than private health care? Private health care in the US is ruinously expensive with worse outcomes than most of the rest of the developed world.
GrantMoyer 2y ago
Maybe the private healthcare is only cheap because it has to compete with free. (free in the sense that any costs are sunk costs, not that there are no costs)
mminer237 2y ago
How much could it possibly cost? As a young, healthy American, I currently pay over $10,000/year (about half of which is forcefully taken not even counting Medicaid/Medicare) for a plan with a $7,000 deductible. In other words, I get zero benefit other than an annual checkup unless I have something catastrophic happen. This was by far both the cheapest plan and best plan available for every situation for me. Google says the average Canadian pays, including taxes, about half of what I do. Do you just not get any coverage at all?

bossyTeacher 2y ago

It's such an American idea to think that you will always have a job and that you will never be unfit to work before you can afford not to work

halostatue 2y ago
Having spent four days in the hospital recently on something and only having a $45 ambulance bill out of it without even having to think about whether going to the hospital would bankrupt me — I’ll take Canada's taxes over those in the US. We at least get value for our taxes, and (mostly) don’t have greedy US healthcare companies denying necessary coverage because it would drop their profitability by 0.001%.
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MattPalmer1086 2y ago

Please point me to anywhere that provides bad health care at vastly more cost than private health care? Private health care in the US is ruinously expensive with worse outcomes than most of the rest of the developed world.

GrantMoyer 2y ago

Maybe the private healthcare is only cheap because it has to compete with free. (free in the sense that any costs are sunk costs, not that there are no costs)

mminer237 2y ago

How much could it possibly cost? As a young, healthy American, I currently pay over $10,000/year (about half of which is forcefully taken not even counting Medicaid/Medicare) for a plan with a $7,000 deductible. In other words, I get zero benefit other than an annual checkup unless I have something catastrophic happen. This was by far both the cheapest plan and best plan available for every situation for me. Google says the average Canadian pays, including taxes, about half of what I do. Do you just not get any coverage at all?