Originally Posted by TheDoc

In 2005, the United States spent 16 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on health care. It is projected that the percentage will reach 20 percent by 2016.1

Health care spending accounted for 10.9 percent of the GDP in Switzerland, 10.7 percent in Germany, 9.7 percent in Canada and 9.5 percent in France, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Not only are we spending more of our GDP, we are covering a smaller percentage of people while we are at it!

Although nearly 47 million Americans are uninsured, the United States spends more on health care than other industrialized nations, and those countries provide health insurance to all their citizens.


Know why? Because when everyone is covered, the prices go down.

And SS was ran fine until bush screwed it up, and the medicaid/care, one of them is doing perfectly fine.

As for taxes vs. Canadians.. The average person making 50k a year in American actually pays more Taxas than a Canadian. Canadians pay on a scale, first 22k, next 40k, etc. All of which is less than our 25%. Then when you add our cost of Insurance, we pay like double what they pay, another 20-25% for the average American.

At the end of the Day, Socialist Canada allows it's citizens take home a bigger % of money to spend than Americans.