Thanks for clarifying TeacherTerry.
Thanks for clarifying TeacherTerry.
I would like to know from the "single payer thumps up" fans, specifically: how much can/should a citizen retain in net worth while his supporting society pays for cancer(or any other health ) treatment.
Seriously, tell me the dollar amount.
None. Here is a description of the British system, of which I am a fan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_England
I'd like to know more about your question, IL, and your own answer. I'm not sure I understand the context behind your query.
That is a lot of yadda yadda, that wiki article.
According to that article in the NHS one can retain, for example, $30,000,000 (ten millions!) in net worth assets and still be medically treated by NHS. It that ok with you redfox? That the taxpayers, I mean, put forth resources to treat this multimillionaire? He's in the 1% just to remind you how entirely despicable he is! haha.
Personally, I think that if we must move to a single payer model (and we cannot afford that and I am not in favor) then at least for god's sake, let here be a wealth cap. theoretically. Theoretically let's say there is a wealth cap at #2 millions, and after that, that SOB pays for his own freakin' health insurance, haha!
In the practical world I suppose I have to fall into line with bae's position, damn it. wealth cap? too expensive to carry out.
ah bae, I love you! you push the boundaries of my thinking, few here do.
i imagine someone with a lot of wealth has the potential to pay a lot of taxes and make a huge financial contribution to the society they live in. For instance, property taxes are most likely pretty high. They may employ a lot of people to keep up the estate whom all in turn pay taxes. I assume many spend a lot more on cars, vacations, expensive hotels etc and the resultant taxes than I ever do.
Many wealthy people also give a lot to charity.
I certainly don't don't have the answer here, but as usual see many sides of the story. But as long as physicians spend several hundred thousand dollars to be educated and there are all kinds of people making a profit, from pharmaceutical companies to insurance companies to hospitals and providers, things will never get under control here.
Yes, it is ok with me. I don't despise the 1%, I despise the current system which allows for grossly unequal wealth distribution. I manage a portfolio of donors in the 1%, and to a person! they are all wonderful people. And, most of my donors agree with me regarding single payer AND the inequality of the wealth distribution system.
Iris, in the uk the rich have private insurance anyway to bypass the lines, such as for elective surgery like knee replacement from what I have read.
So if you can not afford it you just die? Who dies-just the old-very young without money? Why can all the European countries handle this & we cannot? Are you people willing to gamble that you & someone you love will not have this happen to you?
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