Originally posted by: tom
Instead of insurance premiums you pay for this in higher taxes
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/canadas-rising-personal-tax-rates-and-falling-tax-competitiveness-2024.pdf
Out of 61 Canadian and US jurisdictions (including the provinces, states, and Washington, DC), Newfoundland and Labrador currently has the highest combined top statutory marginal rate (54.80 percent), followed by Nova Scotia (54.00 percent) and Ontario (53.53percent). Nine Canadian provinces occupy the list of 10 jurisdictions with the highest top combined marginal income tax rates and all provinces are in the top 15. There is a total of 46 US jurisdictions with combined top tax rates that are lower than all Canadian provinces
. According to the Fraser Institute, patients in Canada waited an average of 19.8 weeks to receive treatment, regardless of whether they were able to see a specialist or not. In the U.S., the average wait time for a first-time appointment is 24 days (≈3 times faster than in Canada); wait times for Emergency Room (ER) services averaged 24 minutes (more than 4x faster than in Canada); wait times for specialists averaged between 3–6.4 weeks (over 6x faster than in Canada)
Yeah - canadians pay $9000 per capita for access to healthcare that yields better outcomes, no healthcare bankruptcies, and no out of pocket costs.
AMericans pay $12,500 per capita (and thats just the people who can afford it). ANd thats with worse outcomes. And it doesnt include their out of pocket costs that get added onto their premiums which are already higher than the rest of the industrialized world.
It takes a special kind of willful ignorance to say the US does is better than Canada.
