(04-30-2019, 09:48 AM)jj82284 Wrote:

(04-30-2019, 09:09 AM)mikesez Wrote: Most Germans pay much less than that.
And so do most Dutch.
The median northern european pays more than us, true, but thats notnjust for universal health care.  They  also get one year of maternity leave, nearly free daycare, nearly free university education, many more vacation days.
And before you say this is bankrupting them, check their debt/GDP ratio compared to ours.

You're right.  Our GDP to Debt Ratio would be a lot better if we didn't adopt a system of redistributing our defense and medical resources to our "Allies"

Let's do some math on that.
We spend about 4% of our GDP on defense.
They spend about 2% only. That does make a difference, 2%.
But we spend about 17% of GDP on health care (7.5% comes from public, 9.5% from private sector), while they spend about 11% (8.5% public sector, 2.5% private sector).
They actually spend less on both.
The 2% of GDP they save on defense doesn't seem to explain anything that's going on with their health care system.

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