Re:How I got wealthy without working too hard
by TMWNN on Friday November 19, 2021 @02:41AM
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You're almost certainly an American, who thinks that a) healthcare throughout the developed world other than the US is just like the NHS, and b) the taxes that go to pay for the NHS are inconsequential.
jdminhbg gave Germany as an example of a country that doesn't follow the NHS example. The German model of insurance based on public and private sickness funds, separate from hospitals and doctors, is a) closer to the "average" among developed countries than the monolithic NHS model of unified ownership of payer and delivery, and b) more or less what the US has post-Obamacare; the main difference is that it is harder (not impossible) to evade the mandate in Germany than in the US.
Re:How I got wealthy without working too hard
by soperj on Friday November 19, 2021 @12:09PM
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I'm not. I'm Canadian, and the taxes per capita we pay for our whole health care system is less than what the US pays per capita for just medicare/medicaid.
jdminhbg gave Germany as an example of a country that doesn't follow the NHS example. The German model of insurance based on public and private sickness funds, separate from hospitals and doctors, is a) closer to the "average" among developed countries than the monolithic NHS model of unified ownership of payer and delivery, and b) more or less what the US has post-Obamacare; the main difference is that it is harder (not impossible) to evade the mandate in Germany than in the US.