Canada doesn't tax income at 60% ... so where are you talking about?
And tell me... what is the effective tax rate for someone who earns $50,000/yr and has to pay $20,000/yr for healthcare insurance...and then still has $3000 in deductibles and co-pays? That's on top of their current tax liability.
Which is significantly less than in the US.
Our GDP per capita is something like 62k and their's is around 40k, there's your 20k right there.
Believe it or not, you can't have your cake and eat it too no matter how big the lie they told you.. no matter how much you want to believe it, the math just isn't there.
I do think Americans deserve better healthcare, at least from the cost perspective. But if that hits doctors’ pockets, would it eventually result in lower-quality/less physicians in the field?
I think so too, but we can lower cost for those who need it lowered the most in other more creative ways than going towards socialism which is antithetical to American values and doesn't work all that well even when it works well.
There are obvious realities which you just have to totally blissfully ignore in order to believe in the free delusions like Fuzz and Dionysis do.
It won't work as well as what we have now for a whole slew of reasons I've already gone in to and won't waste my breath again on again needlessly, but you hint at one that I didn't. The expensive care that the rich can pay for here helps spurn innovation in the same manner a 60 inch High Definition TV cost 20k 20 years ago and now you can pick one up for 200 bucks at walmart... That initial cost of R&D is subsidized by the greedy rich which trickled down, yes it works like that sometimes, to your average black Friday Joe Schmoe.
It's simply naive and willfully ignorant to think all things are equal, which is what they argue when they attempt to make a coherent argument, when they clearly are not. If you want to sit at the McDonald's drive through for breakfast every morning, I don't want to pay for it. Europeans walk every where or hell they ride bikes like in Amsterdam, then maybe collective chipping makes at least some sense. Or education, in Europe it's hard to get in to college, you can't just get in with average scores like you can here and then party hard your first few years as they can be still very easy and then get some BS Bachelor of Arts, you want that then you pay for it not the rest of us.
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