rubberhead
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It's an interesting reference. But I disagree with the bit about slaves. No-one is advocating that doctors, for example, should work for no payment.
Yes, the doctors would not work for no payment, so the taxpayers would become the slaves. 50% tax = 50% slavery. If you have to work until August to pay your taxes, then you are a slave for half the year. Yes, I've heard the collective action, bridge building argument, but if you don't want/don't use a single payer system, but are forced to pay for it, then you are a slave for whatever amount of time the government forces you to work for no pay to cover your share of the service that you are not using.
They pay HALF per capita what we pay for healthcare.
That means they pay less.
I guess you don't know what the word "half" means.
Yes, I agree that our health care is expensive. When are you going to make the argument that the government needs to start an insurance company? There are many reasons why our health care is expensive, one of which is the way that health insurance companies attenuate price controls on demand, but a government option won't change that. It will just violate a bunch of peoples' rights. They pay half because they have more rationing and I'm not sure, but I'd be interested to know how many malpractice lawsuits there are in those utopias. Nice try on the trolling by the way, but the 8th grade tactics don't work on me. If you want to win this argument you're going to have to come up with an argument.