posted October 14, 2002 09:02 AM
You really want people to start wading through tax tables and factoring in the comparitive availability of deductables? Or adding in services that you pay for privately in some nations and recieve publically elsewhere? Or crunching the whole thing through some sort of cost of living equation?
Because without that, numbers, assuming we could arrive with them in the first place, are pretty irrelevant.
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posted October 15, 2002 03:49 AM
scratch that.
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quote:I know that a better health care system has been proven to lead to a more productive economy.
Where?
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posted October 16, 2002 07:34 AM
Well, common sense would suggest that better health care results in more living, non-sick people, and those are the types that earn and spend money. If you have a lot of sick and dead people, the only people making any money are doctors and undertakers.
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posted October 16, 2002 07:38 AM
and autopsy equipment makers. you can't forget about them. and coffin salesman. also shroud weavers. lots of people, see?
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posted October 16, 2002 09:55 AM
That's the thing about "common sense." It's so rarely backed up by the facts.
Hey... Newsweek (March 27, 1995, p. 60) reported that 100,000 people a year in the U.S. die "as a result of preventable medical errors--the equivalent of a jumbo-jet crash EVERY DAY."
THIS could be better, hm? Let's fix what's wrong with the health-care system NOW, before we expose everyone to it.
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posted October 16, 2002 10:06 AM
I'm confused. Who's arguing for what now? Stop switching topics and sides...aaaaa....
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posted October 16, 2002 11:36 AM
Figure base taxes isn't that hard to do....
For me: Federal 10% on anything from $124.00 to $355.00 Federal 15% on anything from $356.00 to $991.00 State 4.2% Social Security 12.4%* (Self Employed) Medicare 2.9%* (Self Employed) *it is 6.2 % and 1.45% for employees....
Only variables would be local taxes and state...
If a person hasn't a clue as to what they pay in taxes then they should really figure it out....
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posted October 17, 2002 02:54 AM
Incidently the US has some of the worst immunization records in the world (particularly child immunization).
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posted October 17, 2002 01:56 PM
our immunisation is nonexistant. we switched over to immunization ages ago.
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posted October 18, 2002 11:39 PM
Done (assuming that you ment the spelling, not the immunization record).
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