TheRealMafoo on 10 August 2009
| skip said: You pay for it by getting the cost per person down to a reasonable level. Your government already spends enough money to provide a level of care greater than that of Canada (Canada chosen due to the similarities between lifestyles and geography).
Graph care of OECD Health Data 2009. Bottom Bar is government expenditure. Top bar is personal expenditure. (per person) |
That's an interesting chart. In the US, the government today covers less then 15% of the population, and the cost is about the same as private insurance covering over 60% of Americans.
Not a good sign for them doing it in a cost productive way.
