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To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (51989)	3/5/2008 10:51:22 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 542585

Who can afford that? Good question. An even better question, though, IMO, is who can afford to pay enough extra in income taxes to pay that for the fifty percent or so of Americans who pay no income tax and the nearly ninety percent who don't pay enough in income tax to pay their own premiums let alone the premiums of others and all the other stuff for which income tax has been used. That's a really long sentence. Let me try it from another angle. In discussions with a Canadian poster, I tried applying the Canadian model to a US single payer system straight up. My numbers are rough as computed on the back of an envelope by yours truly. The results, though, are shocking. The entire burden of health care would have to be borne by the top ten or so percent or so of tax payers. Even if my rough numbers are off by 100%, we're still looking at three quarters of the country on the dole. And they vote.

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