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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Don't quote me on these figures, but I've read that overhead, administration fees, shareholder profit, etc,. represents over 30% of all healthcare spending in the United States and less than 3% in Canada. Those numbers aren't exactly correct, but they're pretty close. Single-payer socialized healthcare eliminates a great amount of the costly bureaucracy that plagues the American private insurance system.
Per capita, Americans spend nearly twice as much on healthcare (public and private combined) than Canadians do, yet health outcomes for the same condition are more or less equivalent between the two nations.
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lol.
Canada is long ways away from having the bloated government that the US has.
I don't see how you can expect the results of a universal health care program to be the same, when two things are vastly different.
First of all, the 270 million MORE people that the US has to look after, and secondly, the fact that the dumbass Democrats want to push through a FEDERAL system.
Last time I checked, each province in Canada looks after their own health care.
The US government can't get Social Security right without wasting billions, they can't manage a war properly without wasting billions, and they can't even regulate the banking industry without LOOSING billions.
And you seriously think that they can run a federally mandated universal health care program any better?