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FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 week agoI don’t care what every other country does.
I get that, but it’s a stupid notion, especially when we can observe that every other major country pays less for health care and gets better health outcomes. It costs less to fly to Europe and get an MRI than it does to drive to the doctor up the street and get one here in the US. In most countries medical bankruptcy doesn’t even exist.
It’s absolutely silly that you think it’s a good thing that we do health care differently than the rest of the world. Taking pride in doing things differently than the rest of the world, and also in a way that’s observably stupid, is unreasonable.
Tax their rich less. Tax their middle class more.
LOLOLOLOLOL, now you’re just being absurd. Every other major country provides far more to the middle class for the taxes they pay, whereas here in the US, we don’t adequately tax the wealthy AND do not provide value to taxpayers for the taxes they pay. In return for our generosity we get a few hundred billionaires and war in seven countries at once.
I guess you have GoFundMe when you can’t afford your insulin, so there’s that.
Chucklestheclown@hilariouschaos.com 1 week ago
It cost 25 dollars to get an mri. What a hospital charges isn’t what you pay. You pay what the final bill states.
That is false. So easy to prove you wrong and maybe educate you a bit on the topic of taxes
manhattan.institute/…/correcting-the-top-10-tax-m…
In reality, these European tax systems do not fit the American progressive image because their higher revenues are overwhelmingly raised through steep income, payroll, and consumption taxes on the middle class.
Moreover, top rates imposed on corporations and wealthy families in the U.S. often exceed OECD averages