kiwiman127
Comfortably Moderate
This is in CANADA??
You really do have terrible insurance.
Can't be Canada. We only pay about $2000 for our insurance and we have no co-pays at all other than $5 for a prescription. Co-pays on doctors visits or hospital stays are illegal here.
Before ObamaCare:
The following ‘Universal Healthcare’ countries have higher out-of-pocket costs than the United States:
Out-of-pocket spending as a share of total expenditure on health, 1980-2000 http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/5/53/22364122.pdf (table 4)
http://www.oecd.org/els/healthpoliciesanddata/22364122.pdf
Canada, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland.
Actually, the countries you listed have lower health care costs, so yes they pay a slightly higher percentage of their total health care costs. but their overall costs for healthcare are much cheaper than the US. Therefore their dollar for dollar would be lower than the US ala Out-of-Pocket. Their governments negotiate with providers to keep the cost down. Other than Medicare, the US government doesn't negotiate with providers, thus the US's highest cost for health care in the world.
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