Health Care Costs

Old-Biscuit wrote:
Thanks for those response from our Canadian members.......

How is this healthcare PAID for. Taxes? At what rate.







My tax rate is roughly 10% to Federal and 10% to State.
My healthcare is free (don't pay a monthly premium) and I have small co-pay for prescriptions.

BUT that is because I don't use ACA (Obamacare). IF I did it would cost be between $240/month for Bronze Plan (basic....high deductibles) to $500/month for Gold Plan.

I am a US Veteran and have medical thru the VA (Veterans Administration).

Local clinic for Primary Doctor....routine medical/lab
VA Hospital for procedures/surgery/emergency.
The VA does have some issues........especially those VA facilities that are where the snowbirds come, many of which are US Veterans.

I personally have had nothing but top notch care via the VA. Even when we FTd for 7 yrs. Used VA Facilities across USA....all with good results and in a timely manner.

Only recently have had appointment scheduling issues/delays which were fine prior to VA scandal.

Healthcare will always be high cost..........whether single payer system, current system or old way (which is why new system ACA---Obamacare was implemented----high cost of old system.....new system would save monies).
All pie in the sky hype.

The Canadian Health Care system is funded by taxes. Generally speaking Canadians pay higher taxes than Americans but it is not quite as straight forward as that as it depends a lot on your income bracket. Googling your question will bring up a lot of answers to your question including some that would argue there is little difference between the two depending on the individuals circumstances. Hope that helps.