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Originally Posted by NCB
With all this talk about % of GDP spent on healthcare is less than it is in the US and that it's wonderful and all, just why do people in nations that have universal health keep coming to the USA for the care that will save their lives?
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Economies of scale? You are a really large, industrial nation.
The fact that if you have 1 million dollars to blow, I guarantee you can get better care in the US than here? There are costs.
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Originally Posted by Mojo_PeiPei
But point in case, what do you guys pay in taxes north of the border? Same should be asked for Greece.
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Government spending as a percentage of GDP in Canada, plus private health care spending as a percentage of GDP, is roughly the same as the same sum in the USA. (I worked it out, this was for some year between 2000 and 2004, I forget which one)
The number in both cases was about 43% of each of our GDPs.
The Federal Government in Canada is currently in a 'debt reduction' mode, while the Federal Government in the USA is currently in a deficit-spending mode.