Well, let’s do a quick comparison. Canada has 34,568,211 people. The US has 316,668,567 people. So Canada has 11% the size of the American population. 67.6% of Canada’s population falls into the employable ages from 15-64 years old, whereas 66.2% of America’s population is contributing to the cost of “everyone”. So, Canada has a greater employable workforce to carry the tax burden on a lower population. Canada’s population growth rate is 0.77% where America’s is 0.9%, so America has more incoming burden to carry if everyone is covered. The Canadian birth:death ratio is 10.28:8.2 vs. America’s 13.66:8.39, so we have a greater of natural-borne incoming that contribute to the tax burden of covering everyone. Canada kind of sucks at keeping track of illegal immigrants, but America has about 20million who can have children that are natural-borne citizens who qualify for all benefits as citizens… that’s only a “small” factor in the cost to “everyone” (being within the previously mentioned employable ages). Canada’s health expenditures of GDP are 11.3% vs. America’s 17.9% of GDP (suspected to be due to denied treatments and people with major medical problems traveling to EU and the US for treatment. This is also a product of reduced research and development for new treatments- but we won’t get into that.) Additionally, only 9.4% of Canada’s population lives below the poverty line vs. America’s 15.1%. Those outside of the poverty range carry private health insurance in America and also pay for the hundreds of welfare programs across the US that already take away household income of earners to redistribute wealth. Canada’s debt is 84.1% of GDP vs. America’s 73.6% of GDP- So Canada being “richer” is actually a reflection of them living off of credit, but remaining cash-poor in the sense that they are spending money overall at a higher rate than the US- which, by the basic principles of economic is completely unsustainable. This is especially true considering Canada’s industrial production growth rate is only 3.7% vs. America’s 4.1% growth rate. Of course, this means that Canada is effectively spending money faster than they are making it. So: Smaller population, higher spending, less production, fewer illegal immigrants, fewer advances in medical R&D, fewer available doctors per 1000 people, higher rate of employable population contributing less to the GDP/tax burden than America’s employable population contributing more to the GDP/tax burden, and a higher deterioration of wealth rate overall. Please, please tell me how much better Canada’s apples are than America’s oranges. Yes. Universal healthcare works in the implementation phase. However, the rate of production never catches up to the rate of production. Therefore, it is ABSOLUTELY UNSUSTAINABLE! Sorry to shit on liberal logic yet again… Oh wait. No, I’m not. I LOVE FACTS!
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 05:22:03 +0000
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