You would lose that bet. I have lived both of those realities. your statement wasn't about yourself, it was about all doctors and all people in the US, your personal experience is irrelevent
50% taxes?! Are you insane?! I am Canadian and can tell you we pay nowhere NEAR 50% taxes! Please get your facts straight before you post.
I couldn't find the numerous articles I saw two years ago stating 80% of Americans have medical debt on their credit file. If half of bankruptcies are due to medical issues, that is not a stretch Pull your credit file before you flame me....its free.
Roger that. But just for the record as I have heard many comments about extraordinarily high taxes in Canada to pay for the healthcare, here are the 2008 federal tax rates in Canada: 15% on first $39,000 22% on next $39,000 26% on next $49,000 29% on income over $126,000 Add roughly 5-10% provincial taxes depending on the province and your amount of income.
I'm not really surprised that Canadians pay less than I do, we have a very lavish socialized medical care system for segments of our population and they cost a lot. We also are building this massive debt, so one way or another I am going to pay more.
Not flaming just curious as to where you got your numbers. I did find a link from 2005. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6895896/ I doubt Harvard would lie.
I disagree, and stand by my original post. Costs for equivalent procedures and for equivalent drugs, almost across the board, are significantly lower in Canada, and all other developed countries. Rationing, whether it exists or not, is not relevant to the point i made, which is that until costs in the US are brought down no real progress can be made in addressing the failure of the US health care system. I would agree with letting the free market operate, as that, i believe, is the best way to bring down cost. But you do understand, don't you, that the US Healthcare system is just about as far from a free market capitalist system as you can get! It is, in fact, a government condoned* Cartel in which the FDA and other government bodies are complicit! It is highly regulated and this regulation serves the interests of the Cartel, not the patient. (I use "condone" here in the dictionary sense, meaning to overlook. )