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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Lane3 who wrote (51998)3/5/2008 10:57:17 PM
From: wonk  Read Replies (2) of 542651
 
...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.

I've done this before. Go read this....

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Its long (as typical with me) :-(

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