On 4/10/2016 1:46 PM, wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 13:38:16 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>
>> On 4/10/2016 12:44 PM, graham wrote:
>>> On 10/04/2016 9:58 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>> On 4/10/2016 9:17 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I spend 4 days in ICU and another 3 nights in the hospital. I was billed
>>>>> nothing for all that.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How much does the average Canadian pay for free medical? Based on
>>>> income?
>>>>
>>> Nothing directly out of pocket. It's government funded, therefore it
>>> comes out of tax revenue.
>>> It's far more efficient and cheaper that way.
>>> Graham
>>
>> So, you have no idea what that translates to in dollars?
>>
>> 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. As a result of
>> lower average incomes and differences in taxation, the bills are smaller
>> for the average unattached individual ($3,780), for the average
>> one-parent-one-child family ($3,905), and the average one-parent
>> two-child family ($3,387). But no matter the family type, the bill is
>> not small, much less free.
>>
>> And it gets worse. Changing demographics mean Canada's health care
>> system has a funding gap of $537 billion. While health care is costly
>> and underperforming today, in the absence of reform the future will
>> either hold large increases in taxes, further reductions in the
>> availability of medical services, further erosion of non-health care
>> government services, or all of the above.
>>
>> Canadians pay a substantial amount of money for their universal health
>> care system each year through the tax system but get a fairly poor deal
>> in return. Reforming Canadian health care based on lessons from other,
>> more successful, universal access health care systems is the key to
>> solving that problem.
>
> Ed pls don't pay too much attention to what the Huff Post has to say,
> I sincerely doubt their figures are even correct.
>

Brilliant rebuttal, your "doubt" is worth as much as your crotch rot, ****.