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| Subject: Re: So what is it Ducan, people that make mistakes are not entitled to healthcare? | |
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Date Posted: 19:51:49 07/09/07 Mon In reply to: L. 's message, "Re: So what is it Ducan, people that make mistakes are not entitled to healthcare?" on 07:20:39 07/09/07 Mon Excellent post, it is important to note that in most countries that have excellent social benifits, most people do not pay more taxes than they do here, it is only the very rich and business that pay more, the ones who benifited most from society are required to give back to those who made them rich. >Sicko is about people with insurance that have bad >health care as a direct result of managed care, as I >understand it. I work in the field so I have my own >experiences to add to any perspective. I would hate >to see you at a hospital admissions office telling >people that yep, they need a life saving procedure but >they are to stupid to figure out how to get care. >Then you give them a health and drug care formulary >and say: "Here study this". This is from another >board: Here study this: > >Healthcare >I believe the Canadian model is misrepresented in the >USA Here in British Columbia, everyone pays $75 a >month for health care…and often the employer picks up >that cost as a benefit. The truly poor can apply to >have welfare pay their $75. and the basic Canadian >federal tax rate is: 0% for first $10,000 >17% %for next $17,000 >22% on the next $37,000 >26% on the next $46,000 >29% on anything over $120,000 >so on $100,000 income, would pay $20,442 Basic US >Income tax is : >10% first $7,000 >15% next $22,000 >25% next $44,000 >28% next $75,000 >33% next $150,000 >35% anything over $336,000 >so one $100,000 would pay $22,000 >so Canadians not only get cheap and efficient health >care, they pay less taxes overall. >why cant the USA get it together? [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |