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| Subject: Re: So what is it Ducan, people that make mistakes are not entitled to healthcare? | |
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Author: Duncan7 |
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Date Posted: 08:13:27 07/09/07 Mon In reply to: L. 's message, "Re: So what is it Ducan, people that make mistakes are not entitled to healthcare?" on 07:20:39 07/09/07 Mon I should also add that my mother (who is on medicare) just had life threatening surgery and the results were excellent. It didn't cost us a thing. Her and my father will probably live to be 100 easily. >Sicko is about people with insurance that have bad >health care as a direct result of managed care, as I >understand it. I work in the field so I have my own >experiences to add to any perspective. I would hate >to see you at a hospital admissions office telling >people that yep, they need a life saving procedure but >they are to stupid to figure out how to get care. >Then you give them a health and drug care formulary >and say: "Here study this". This is from another >board: Here study this: > >Healthcare >I believe the Canadian model is misrepresented in the >USA Here in British Columbia, everyone pays $75 a >month for health care…and often the employer picks up >that cost as a benefit. The truly poor can apply to >have welfare pay their $75. and the basic Canadian >federal tax rate is: 0% for first $10,000 >17% %for next $17,000 >22% on the next $37,000 >26% on the next $46,000 >29% on anything over $120,000 >so on $100,000 income, would pay $20,442 Basic US >Income tax is : >10% first $7,000 >15% next $22,000 >25% next $44,000 >28% next $75,000 >33% next $150,000 >35% anything over $336,000 >so one $100,000 would pay $22,000 >so Canadians not only get cheap and efficient health >care, they pay less taxes overall. >why cant the USA get it together? [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |