Ahh, no it is not.
If you are paying taxes in Canada you are paying your share for health care, no choice to opt out from paying what is due as in Americas system.
Methinks you are missing something. That may be the case in Canada with its different demographics and culture but in the US fewer than half of us pay income tax. If we graduated our tax system even more, which we'd have to do if we had to pay for universal health care the way you do, my rough calculations suggest that we'd have around 30% taxpayers. That leaves 70% free riders. Now, I don't know just how many deadbeats we have but it's way below 50% let alone 70%.
Here are some data on that. Looks like it's a pretty small number.
"According to
another survey, the Health Care Costs Survey (KFF, 2005), close to 23 percent of
Americans had problems paying medical bills in the previous year"
"The Office for United States Trustees (in the US Department of Justice), on the
other hand, found that medical debt was not a major factor in the majority of bankruptcy
cases filed in 2000.
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More than 50 percent of filers reported no medical debt at all, while
only 11 percent had medical debt in excess of $5000."
The ones on the bottom of the ladder get a break, and with full coverage, while they try to change their position
That's fine as long as they are motivated and eventually change their position. The problem is that the psychology works against that. Why would anyone try harder to be in that 30% when those in the 70% get the same benefits? Sure, some would for various reasons, but a whole lot wouldn't. It's human nature to avoid being a patsy.
Do you think all of Silicon Investors, were born rich?
Of course not. That's what employment, investment, and savings are for. <g> |
