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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Canadian or British systems or Scandinavian systems for that matter could work in the US with very high taxes. But that's not what's bring proposed.
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I agree with most of your post about what is being proposed--but this statement about costs is simply wrong. The U.S. system, as it is right now--is far more expensive than the Canadian system, costing 16% of GDP as opposed to around 8.
In fact, the U.S. spends MORE per capita on Medicare and Medicaid--two non-universal government health care insurance programs ("public options", for those who are paying attention) than Canada does on its entire health care system from top to bottom.
The notion that a publically funded system is more expensive than the hybrid system that the U.S. currently has is simply nonsense. In fact, the most potent argument for universal health care is this: it's cheaper.