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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gg cox who wrote (4870)	2/24/2008 8:22:07 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

So have a tax system that is fair, because it is the tax payers of a country that pay for all the ""commons," like it or not. I don't think I've ever heard anyone call medical care part of the commons. I certainly support good stewardship of the commons, but I'm having difficulty getting my head around the notion that that concept subsumes health care. It seems to apply to things that simply aren't divisible like oceans and airspace. and not weasels Thanks for the clarification. People who pay little, while I agree are not weasels, are still free (or discounted) riders. You may choose not to apply a stigma to that, which you clearly don't, but from an economic perspective they are still free riders. everyone in Canada has to pay his share according to tax system and proportional healthcare fee By "everyone" do you mean every single person or do you mean taxpayers? Sometimes you seem to be talking about one and sometimes the other. I assume that in Canada, like the US, some people don't earn enough to have to file tax returns. But you say that everyone, not just taxpayers, has to pay something toward the provincial fee? Since you and I have been chatting, I've been looking into funding in Canada I was thinking more about the tax system and the budget. I think I have the gist of how medicare works. I don't know what portion of income tax revenues go towards medicare. Or what portion or the population pays taxes and what the median payment might be. I probably just don't know where to look.