Friday, January 19, 2007

Now Adjust for Illegal Immigration and Healthy Young People Who Choose Not to Have Health Insurance



I would also surmise a lot more people could afford health insurance if 15% wasn't taken out of their paycheck for social security and another 6% for Medicare.

5 comments:

Alfred T. Mahan said...

And if we had, I don't know, a health insurance system that was actually allowed to be truly driven by the market, rather than by all the insane state mandates and meddling?

Don't forget, too, that the state picks up the tab for a lot of these people, so it's not as though they're really "uninsured".

Anonymous said...

In real dollar terms, does the U.S. spend more on socialized medical care than a member of the G8, per capita.

Captain Capitalism said...

On average, yes, there's I think two countries that spend more. But otherwise we spend more public money per capita than most of Europe.

Alfred T. Mahan said...

The readers here may be interested in this discussion, since it deals with a comparison between the American and Canadian systems of health care.

Working in the industry as I am, I can tell you from hard experience, as one of the later posters put it, when government and business get together like this, it's a bit of a mess.

Anonymous said...

Don't forget guys pushing 50, like myself, who are such complete misers that, once the insurance went over one dollar a day (pre-tax), they opted out entirely.

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