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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The US has the best healthcare in the world.....   but only for the 1% and people who can afford it. [/b] For most regular people there are steep and serious limits to what we can get without bankrupting us.

This is why we need a universal healthcare system, to rein costs in and make healthcare reachable again for people.  I'm in favor of having private treatment options available in addition to public as many countries do but the bottom line is that we need a serious fix.  The GOP plan goes in exactly the wrong direction and fixes nothing.[/quote]

a. More than the 1% in America have and do benefit from the best healthcare in the world.

b. Universal healthcare, some thoughts from a WSJ physical poster today. It the American Public agreeable to this?

Characteristics of single payer countries:
1) Smaller, uniform populations with similar beliefs and work ethics.
2) On average, every worker pays 50% in taxes.
3) Costs are controlled by government controlled rationing guidelines.
4) Malpractice decisions are made by government panels
5) Physicians have unions with the right to strike. 
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Welp, to start with:

1) Canada has proportionally more immigrants and is more diverse in backgrounds than the US. "In 2011, Canada had a foreign-born population of about 6,775,800 people. They represented 20.6% of the total population, the highest proportion among the G8 countries."
http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/as-sa/99-010-x/99-010-x2011001-eng.cfm

2) If you are referring to income tax, "U.S. federal income tax brackets range from 10% to 35% for individuals. On the Canadian side, the range is 15% to 29%."
http://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0411/do-canadians-really-pay-more-taxes-than-americans.aspx#ixzz4lc3y8Owk

4) Canadian malpractice cases are settled in the courts. "In many respects the legal institutions and mechanisms that deal with malpractice cases in Canada resemble those in the United States, but there are important differences. The liability laws determining which accidents are actionable are quite similar in both countries."
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199101103240204#t=article

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