Media Can’t Stop Presenting Horrifying Stories as ‘Uplifting’ Perseverance Porn

Re:Media Can’t Stop Presenting Horrifying Stories as ‘Uplift... by perl4ever on Sunday August 18, 2019 @11:27PM (#20734657)

"In Europe, universal healthcare is typically paid for with social insurance taxes primarily imposed on people making under $70,000"

I wonder what segment of the population in Europe provides the lion's share of tax revenue overall.

It made an impression on me that I once ran across IRS charts showing that the US relies heavily on taxpayers who are between roughly $200-500K in yearly income. So, not CEOs and billionaires, but not people making $70K either. These are the people who have to be, and are, taxed heavily to keep the system running, but not to the point where it kills the golden goose.

I don't know whether this is how Europe works, or whether they don't have nearly as many people in that income bracket.

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Re:Media Can’t Stop Presenting Horrifying Stories as ‘Uplift... by arcturus17 on Monday August 19, 2019 @02:58AM (#20735512)

I have a hard time believing that you can build a healthcare system in a country with income distribution like the US with the 200-500k bracket as the backbone.

Here in the EU (Spain, but also lived in Germany and the UK) we are quite heavily taxed and there’s always talk about having the rich pay more but we (the middle class) have also accepted that we get what we pay for. Our healtchare systems are far from perfect, but no one with cancer or a serious liver condition is left behind. Never ever seen one of these feel-good stories on this side of the Atlantic.

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