Friday, June 15, 2018
How Much Do Canadians Really Pay for Health Care?
Perhaps you can guess which side of the American political spectrum does NOT want us to know this...
David Catron recently posted this as part of his article at Spectator.org:
"Let’s start with how much Canadians actually pay. The OECD arrives at its figures by the hopelessly simplistic method of dividing a nation’s total health care expenditure by its population. Thus, Canadians pay about $5,500 a head while we pay a little over $10,000 apiece for our system. But these figures are meaningless to actual Canadian families. What matters to them is how much they pay for coverage, via taxation. The Fraser Institute, a non-partisan think tank based in British Columbia, reports that the average two-adult family pays more than $12K annually. And it gets worse:"
