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Skriven 2013-12-25 03:40:23 av Lee Lofaso (2:203/2)
  Kommentar till text 11775 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
Ärende: Healthcare
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Hello Ward,

 DS>> What is your rate of taxation from which your "free" health care is
 DS>> paid?

 WD>> For my country I cannot put any number on it, but it is high.

 DS>> Why can't you put a number on it.  You have an income of X Euros, you
 DS>> pay taxes of Y Euros.  The rate of taxation is Y divided by X.  Surely
 DS>> you have those numbers.

WD>I misunderstood your question. I thought you wanted to know how much
WD>percentage-wise of taxes is earmarked for healthcare.

We do not have a national healthcare system in the USA.

WD>Looked in my files and last year it was 30.51% for me personally
WD>and for my wife 29.21%.

The Affordable Care Act is about access to quality health insurace -
NOT access to quality health care.  It should also be noted that if
something is not affordable it is not accessible.

 DS>> It has been a good while now (decades), but I have had direct experience
 DS>> with the National Health System in Great Britian.  It was sub standard
 DS>> at best.

WD>2 things:

Only 2 things?

 WD> 1) Great Britain still is an island and not a physical part of Europe. The
 WD> country's leadership refuses to opt-in to the Euro-currency and that will
 WD> cause them ever greater problems;

Historically it has always been Britain vs. The Continent.
Adolf Hitler thought he could get Britain to come on board,
but Winston Churchill torpedoed that idea.  And now look
at the fine mess those two countries are in ...

WD>2) A lot of British pregnant women cross the Northsea to
WD>Belgium to deliver here (my daughter is an OB nurse, she's
WD>the default English-speaking nurse on the ward).

Britons have finally caught on to what Mexicans have been
doing for well over a century and a half.  Cross the border,
have a baby, then return home, all expenses paid by the USA.
China is now doing the same thing, having babies in the USA,
the only difference between Chinese women and Mexican women
being Chinese women prefer paying their own way, and travel
by airplane rather than on foot.

Which raises an interesting question -

Do babies born in Belgium have Belgian citizenship?
If so, then somebody ought to tell Mexican women about
it.  And Chinese women.

WD>You would find medical services in Scandinavia, Finland, Germany,
WD>Belgium, the Netherlands, Iceland (at least those countries) at the
WD>same levels of the best hospitals in the US.

The USA has the best maternity wards in the world.  Not only that,
but nobody is turned away.  And I mean nobody.  A woman in labor shows
up, drops off her baby, and goes home.  Without ever having to pay a
dime.

In Palestine when a child was born women would wail, "One more fighter
for Arafat!"  In America when a child is born women would smile and say,
"My check is in the mail!"

What do women in Belgium say when a child is born?

--Lee

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