[ExI] Single Payer Healthcare

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Wed., 29 Mar. 2017 at 3:16 am, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] *On
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> ​The average UK citizen lives to be 81.2 years old and spends  $4003 a
> year on healthcare, the average USA citizen lives to be 79.3 years old and
> spends $9451 on healthcare…John K Clark
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> How do we account for the ongoing drug wars in Chicago and other major US
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> that average in to life expectancy?  Why?  What if a drug gang captures a
> member of a rival gang, takes him to the parking lot of the local hospital,
> shoot him, he crawls up to the ER, racks up huge bills.  How does that
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> Alternative: take a group of living 60 yr olds, the kind of people
> unlikely to perish in these drug wars.  How do those compare between those
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> Another observation: it is meaningless to compare socialist countries with
> capitalist countries, because socialist countries can theoretically raise
> more funds at the federal level than capitalist governments can.  The US
> government is already very close to the maximum revenue it can generate.
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How? They can increase the income tax to 90% if they want.

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Stathis Papaioannou
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