publiusvarus wrote:
Now do you really think a couple of hundred dollars a year is going to pay for any comprehensive health care policy? Come on I thought you were smarter than that.
Edited, Jun 19th 2009 1:14pm by publiusvarus
Public plans are 2-3 times cheaper then the current American system, per person. Literally, the US Federal government alone spends almost as much per person as Canada does, yet in America, only very few are covered and in Canada it covers everyone.
Thus literally you could pay very little more then we pay now and cover everyone.
And this system is thoroughly tested and exists in most every first world nation aside from the US.
At the end of the day, it is not a philosophical question for me. The current US system is insanely expensive and we're committing economic suicide by continuing with it. We can go with well tested solutions we know work or with stuff no one has tried on a large scale. It's health care: you go for the sure thing.
Once we have the sure thing, which is universal, public health care - and we agree we have to make this work - then we can discuss the German system versus the Canadian system, etc.