2016 Health Insurance Premiums
Those of us in the private health insurance market in Minnesota are being socked with 40-50% increases in premiums eff 1-1-16. I may have to put the RV up on blocks and park it in the driveway. I have...
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wing_zealot wrote:steveh27 wrote:You seemed to have missed the point of the whole article. They don't provide better outcomes at lower cost. And if you end up with something really bad, your health care get's really sketchy. Seeing as you live in GPW, ever talk to someone from Canada? You may find it enlightening. I have!
... I am not an expert on the differences in them, but they provide better outcomes than ours at a lower overall cost. Providers will have much lower overhead.
Wing, in my previous post I quoted your article which did say those other countries DID provide better outcomes at lower cost!
I have talked to Canadians (I live in the only part of the continental US which is directly north of Canada). But my original point wasn't that Canada's SP plan was best, but there are many countries SP plans which are better than our mess and we should meld together the best of all to form our own SP. I think you're going to disagree with that & I'll just accept that we can't agree.
