On 4/10/2016 4:29 PM, graham wrote:
> On 10/04/2016 2:28 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On 4/10/2016 3:46 PM, wrote:
>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How much does the average Canadian pay for free medical? Based on
>>>>>> income?
>> ?
>>>>
>>>> I did find this and it does not look so good.
>>>> http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/nadeem-...b_3733080.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In 2013, a typical Canadian family of four can expect to pay $11,320
>>>> for
>>>> public health care insurance. For the average family of two parents
>>>> with
>>>> one child that bill will be $10,989, and for the average family of two
>>>> adults (without children) the bill comes to $11,381.
>>>
>>> Ed pls don't pay too much attention to what the Huff Post has to say,
>>> I sincerely doubt their figures are even correct.
>>>
>>
>> Perhaps, but nobody else has been able to put a dollar figure on it.
>> Those numbers are not much different than what we pay.
>
> No, Ed. Our costs are about half of yours, according to the OECD.
> Graham

Cost of services, yes. But what is the cost of insurance? The cost
quoted above is about the same. No one has put a dollar figure that you
actually pay. The money comes out of your pocket someplace.