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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'd like to add on this bit that people often miss:

  • In Canada, the healthcare system's costs include salaries for healthcare workers, supplies, training, and other necessary costs
  • In the US, the healthcare system's costs include all of the above, in addition to all of the parisitic layers. Just the insurance layer includes insurance shareholders, insurance executives, insurance overhead (marketing, admin, aggressive claims denial), lobbying, etc. Then there are similar costs from each of the private corporations that own the hospitals, the clinics, the ambulance services etc.

That is why the American system is much more expensive and much less efficient with the money. Since Canada's system is still partially private and it never got fully actualized to the original vision (in part because of lobbying from the US), we have some of those inefficiencies too.

Now the thing is, a large segment of the working US population would not be able to afford healthcare because of these parasitic layers. The US government needs to enter this system to keep it afloat, but they have to pay the much higher costs.

So for an American, not only do their taxes ALSO go towards healthcare, but the US spends far more per capita on it. It changes year to year, but double the spending is what I've usually heard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_the_healthcare_systems_in_Canada_and_the_United_States

Cut out the parasitic layers. The savvy businessmen among them can find some other industry to make a profit from.