Scary, Debt will Equal Or Exceed GDP?

Dr Caleb said:
The people you talk to are misinformed. My rate is in the 30 - 40% range, including all taxes paid (eg, including sales taxes). We've actually had tax reductions that last few years on both sales and income taxes.

And you can never be denied access to healthcare. Period. Full stop. It's illegal.

Canada pays less per capita than the US on healthcare, and everyone is covered. I recently had a little medical 'episode', and I had a CAT scan THAT day, and an MRI later the next day. Don't let them scare you into making a useless industry redundant. Canada and most of Europe have socialized healthcare, and you'd have better luck removing our right to vote than our healthcare.

Listen to "Jack Bauer" if you don't believe me.

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Well Im sure the Canadians I talked to knew how much taxes they were paying. But Im also sure that not everyone pays the same rate so I didnt know if that was the norm, or out of the norm. Im glad you dont have to pay 60%. More of my concern is if EVERYone is covered and its already paid for, and Canadians are STILL crossing the border EVERYday to pay for their own health care when its free in Canada. Some businesses in NY and OH report that 10% of their business is from this.
 
Phrog_gunner said:
Well Im sure the Canadians I talked to knew how much taxes they were paying. But Im also sure that not everyone pays the same rate so I didnt know if that was the norm, or out of the norm. Im glad you dont have to pay 60%. More of my concern is if EVERYone is covered and its already paid for, and Canadians are STILL crossing the border EVERYday to pay for their own health care when its free in Canada. Some businesses in NY and OH report that 10% of their business is from this.
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I think you friends are lying to you on the 60% thing. ;) Or yanking your chain.

Healthcare is free to a certain extent. Certain procedures are covered, some are not - but for non-life threatning things, you may have to wait. For example, anything below the ankle is not covered in Alberta. If I want big toe surgery (which isn't life threating) then I have to pay out of pocket. If I want a breast augmentation, that is not covered.

Some people choose to go to the US for their care and pay out of pocket, either because it's not covered by the province, or by their secondary coverage. They go to the US to skip lines; because they can; or because the surgery is not available here.

"Some businesses in NY and OH report that 10% of their business is from this."

Be wary of propaganda. This particular one is called 'argument from authority'. Big businesses have a strong motivation that you believe things that are not true. Believe 90% of what you actually see, 10% of what you are told, and 0% of what you see on the news.

Do they perform surgery not covered or not available here? And 'some [clinics]' is not 'all [clinics]'.
 
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