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Originally Posted by danielf
That's fair enough and laudable, but I still don't like the authoritarian aspect of it.
Hang on. The USA (don't know about Canada) has compulsory health and employment insurance? I don't think so. What was all the recent noise about universal US health care about then? If you want to look at the cost of providing these things at decent levels, I think you're better off looking at Western European states like Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Scandinavia etc.
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I don't like the authoritarian aspect either
Canada has compulsory health (
here's one province) and
employment insurance.
The USA does not as a whole have those but some states, such as
Massachusetts, do have compulsory health care insurance.
I mentioned North America specifically due to the segmentation of health care plans. This is something that is I believe best devolved along with a number of other things. Allows both use of economies of scale through UK-wide purchasing power and efficiencies from smaller scale operational units.
Gemany's taxation is considerably higher than ours along with their having more reliance on private healthcare, Netherlands, Belgium and Scandinavia all have higher levels of personal taxation and considerably smaller populations. North America is a closer representation given personal taxation rates and populations.
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Originally Posted by yesman
You are wasting your time posting on here, maybe you should have a constituency, or have a go at running the country.
No I am not taking the P***
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Haha, good God no. I'd be thrown out of Parliament for having some rather choice words for people in no time
