[65925] in Cypherpunks
Re: Workers Paradise. /Political rant.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (E. Allen Smith)
Thu Sep 19 13:10:35 1996
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 12:31 EDT
From: "E. Allen Smith" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
To: jbugden@smtplink.alis.ca
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: IN%"jbugden@smtplink.alis.ca" 17-SEP-1996 01:09:37.71
Mind trying to do 72-column or so formatting, BTW?
>Canada has a single payer system and we spend about two thirds as much as t=
>he
>U.S. on health care as a percentage of G.N.P. We manage to insure all Canad=
>ians
>while about 35% of people in the U.S. have *no* health insurance.
Canada also has less smoking, teenage pregnancy, and various other
factors which are known to raise health insurance costs. I've seen some studies
in which these _entirely_ account for the differences... and keep in mind the
rate of health care inflation of the two countries (depending on the study,
either the same or higher for Canada.)
-Allen
