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Thread #123258   Message #2722005
Posted By: Little Hawk
11-Sep-09 - 09:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: US Health Care Reform
Subject: RE: BS: US Health Care Reform
The thing that I find really interesting, and that the American media is apparently not bothering to tell most Americans about is:

Canada spends 10% of its yearly budget on health care and manages with that 10% to provide free health care for all Canadians.

The USA spends 17% of its yearly budget on health care and cannot do anything even approaching that and has an enormous number of Americans with NO health insurance or free coverage either.

Amazing isn't it?

All you would have to do to save a tremendous amount of USA tax money is completely abolish your present system in the USA and copy the Canadian system in every way. You would save 7% of the USA's yearly budget for other things!

I gather the Republicans don't know this. ;-) Or they're pretending they don't, anyway. I think the Democrats are also pretending they don't know it. (and I mean at the top party level when I say that, I don't mean the individual people on this forum)