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Old 05-19-2009, 12:20 PM  
WarChild
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Originally Posted by raymor View Post
Insurance companies negotiate prices with health care providers using
"purchasing power". Governments spend $640 on a toilet seat.
Think about it - Fris is paying $10,000 a year in Canada. I'm paying
$3,000 a year in the US. How exactly is he getting "a much better deal"?
He's not, he's just wasting $7,000 on government inefficiency and waste.
Your numbers are all mixed up I'm afraid. You're trying to compare what you spend as an individual versus what the Canadian goverment spends on Fris's behalf.

In order to get an accurate picture you need to look at actual healthcare spending per capita.

For the United States:

- Health Care spending as a percentage of GDP is projected to grow 16.0% of GDP in 2006 to 19.5% of GDP in 2017.
- Average health care spending per capita was $7026 in 2006 and will grow to $7868 in 2008
- The U.S. has by far the highest health care spending as a percentage of GDP.
http://www.chcf.org/documents/insura...areCosts08.pdf

For Canada:

- Health care spending as a share of GDP is expected to reach 10.3% for 2006
- Total health care spending per capita is expected to reach $4,548 in 2006
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/58214.php
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