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Originally Posted by EDBTZ12
* Canada has 10 percent of the population.
* America debt is 57 trillion dollars or 186,000 per man woman or child. http://mwhodges.home.att.net/nat-debt/debt-nat.htm
* America has millions of illegals which will be hard to keep out of Public health care.
* huge recession in America alot worse than Canada.
*Canadas income per person is higher than Americans
You can buy a house in Detroit for about $15,000. Do you really think that someone who can barely afford to pay their mortgage or even put food on their plate will be able to afford the premium?
I know healthcare is important and it really is a terrible cycle to be in and i wish they eventually do get the universal health care system they need but realistically i dont see it happening for atleast 20 years. |
In my Economics and Government course I took a few years back in University we did a comparison of Canadian, British and US health care systems.
Off the top of my head I think in the US they spend almost double the percentage of GDP that Canada does on health care for a crappier system. Britain has a public/public system which sounded fairly good albeit with some drawbacks. Canada's public/private system also sounded good. The US's private/private system sounded like a real hotbed of corruption of interests with Doctor's wanting to prescribe more expensive treatments in order to get paid more.
Universal health care should save Americans money, money which presumably would be redirected in the economy and probably help the economic downturn.