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Originally Posted by willravel
They—Canada, the UK, and even France—pay less in taxes for health care than we pay in insurance for health care. We should concentrate on that, considering it's the entire economic case in one sentence.
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but their OVERALL payments of taxes is HIGHER than what we pay in total for both taxes AND healthcare combined. You'd like to fight on the slice, but I'll state that the money comes from someplace. I don't think that a trillion dollars is just going to show up from thin air. Free money for retirement like social security? yeah sure. I didn't buy it when I was told about it as a kid, and I'm not buying it as an adult. On the same token, I'm not expecting my government to take care of me and mine. I'm improving my own live for me and my family with my own prudent choices be they good or bad choices. It is my choice and my responsibilty to accept the consequences of those choices.
Again you miss the point that it is the total amount of money out of pocket that I don't see becoming less. You may support it, I'm all for you supporting it. But nothing you say will convince me otherwise to support it myself. I can take care of myself much better than the government can.
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