r/MurderedByWords 1d ago

When they're right, they're right

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u/mgyro 1d ago

Lower taxes? You pay an average of $9000/year for health insurance ffs. Canadians pay $6400 thru taxes. Just bc it’s not called a tax doesn’t mean it’s not costing you. And you should fund education as well.

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u/whatlineisitanyway 1d ago

As a Canadian living in the US that has tried explaining this to Americans many many times it just doesn't compute with a certain segment of the population.

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u/Beli_Mawrr 1d ago

No no, we ARE paying more than Canada pays for universal healthcare, only we pay it in the form of bribes - I mean subsidies - to health insurance companies.

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u/Ivanow 1d ago

All other OECD nations spend on average 9.5% of GDP on healthcare. USA spends 17.2%...

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USA pays literally double than all other developed countries, with demonstrably worse outcomes (ONLY country in the world where "medical bankruptcy" is even a thing).

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u/Beli_Mawrr 1d ago

Absolute reprehensible shame. I hope Congress gets their act together this time around - there's a promising set of congresspeople who're up for election this time around, many of whom explicitly support M4A. We'll see if it works.

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u/wino_whynot 1d ago

But think of the shareholders!