Replying to a message of JIM WELLER to BOB ACKLEY:

 BA>> The demand for health care is infinite and resources are
 BA>> limited.  In the US, the limitation has historically been
 BA>> done by price and/or availability.  In countries with
 BA>> socialized medicine it's done by bureaucratic fiat - which
 BA>> includes waiting lines

 JW> We may have waits but EVERYONE gets taken care of.

 BA>> I had that promised to me, too.  And by the US government. 
 BA>> Free medical and dental care for life if I served at least
 BA>> 20 years active duty in the US military. That free dental
 BA>> care went away in the 1970s and that free medical care
 BA>> went away in the 1990s (I retired in 1983).

 JW> We don't get broken promises; we get universal free health
 JW> care and we have for decades.

 BA>> Y'see, providing all
 BA>> that free medical care - and for a very limited population
 BA>> - is expen$ive, and congress has decided it simply isn't
 BA>> going to pay for it

 JW>>> the employer remits 1.95% of his total payroll, I get a
 JW>>> health card, I show it, I don't get a bill. Period.

 JW> Is that too much too pay?  I think not.

Here Socialist Security (including Medicare) takes about 13% of one's
paycheck (6.5% from the person and 6.5% more from the employer, and
the employer's percentage doesn't show up on the employee's pay stub.
Of that 13% Medicare gets about 5% (I'm not sure).

The employer 'contributes' 1.95% of the total payroll.  How much does
the Canadian taxpayer fork over?

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