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Old 01-16-2008, 01:12 PM   #36 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by garysher View Post
How do you know that???

How much money do Americans pay for health care today?

Be sure to include all the hidden costs, and the huge overheads carried by American corporations.

And the profits made by insurance companies.

The answer is about 17% of GDP

Based on decades of experience in every other industrialised nation it would end up costing less - between 5 and 11% of GDP.

Not hard to believe when Americans have to finance a huge, inefficient health insurance industry alongside of health care providers.

Americans are getting ripped off for health care and most of them don't even realise it.
And how do you know your way is better?

Maybe a combination of private health care and regulation is better.

But we are already close enough to a welfare society as it is, I don't think we need MORE welfare type programs. Any plan that I would support would have some personal responsibility. Not just free for everyone.