Reply #25: That's an approximation...but...

[stuball111]

I was reading or saw on TV lately that in Canada's UHC System, they pay average $350 per person in taxes for the lower income brackets, and it is a graduated up from there to about $650 for higher income, say up to 150-200 grand/year, then I think corporations and business pays an even bigger chunk, anyways, it averages out to that because some people don't work and there's all kinds of other factors. In some Provinces they also pay premiums of about $80 per month or so. But overall, it's pretty cheap because not everybody gets sick at the same time, and the system of course costs about 50% less to operate there. The other thing is that of course is that it's not for profit.

We could have it here overnight but the fight by big insurance is that they will go out of business, which is not 100% true. There would still be a place for them for dental and vision and some things that wouldn't be covered like massage therapy, chiropractic, but the only point that is correct about their argument is that a lot of administrative type workers for insurance companies would be out of a job. Some would probably go work for the government system , but that's the only down side other than corporate insurance profit would nosedive.

And the other reason it hasn't been done yet of course, is that big insurance has a strangle hold on us since the 50's when we let them out of the kennel by not starting a public option back when Truman, Kennedy or Johnson wanted to.