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Originally Posted by joshbaumgartner
I am admittedly an extremist when it comes to the issue of health care. I believe that allowing citizens to be destroyed by illness is as bad as allowing their homes to be bombed by a foreign country. Lack of access to health care is a weapon of mass destruction that has killed far more Americans than terrorists could dream of. Denying adequate health care on the basis of finances is in my mind akin to levying the death penalty for poverty. But like I said, I'm a wee bit of an extremist on this issue.
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I couldn't agree more. 18,000 people a year die because they don't have health coverage. How many die each year from terrorism?
According to
this page, about 20% of the average French gross salary goes into the incredible system they have, which is the most expensive of all social medical programs in the world. Germany is about 13%, according to
this site.
This lists the average annual rates for people of different ages under the UK's NHS. Note that even at NHS's most expensive, it's only $220 per month, which is probably a lot less than the national average in the US.