How much do Europeans Pay for Health Care in Taxes?
March 26th, 2010 | by admin |
Speedy asked:
It is a common arguement against Universal Health Care in the USA that implimenting such a system would result in huge and frustrating taxes out of our incomes, like in European countries like France and Italy.
It is a common arguement against Universal Health Care in the USA that implimenting such a system would result in huge and frustrating taxes out of our incomes, like in European countries like France and Italy.
How much do people in these countries pay in taxes for health care? Does around 30% of their income go to the government to cover health care?
I know their systems are generally a lot cheaper then ours (everyone’s is…), So are the taxes really all burdensome compared to health care insurance costs we have here?
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By Skeptic on Mar 29, 2010 | Reply
Europeans spend about half as much on health care through taxes as a citizen in the US. The per capita cost in the United States is about $7,000.00 per year per person but the medical outcomes are inferior in the US. The US is burdened with costs such as excess overhead for claims processing, administrative costs for denying claims, and profits for shareholders. None of these costs exists in a single payer universal health care system. In Britain, a patient may actually be given money for living expenses when he is released from the hospital.
In France, the average life expectancy is 3 years greater than in the US. The US is ranked #37 world wide for health care, yet is by far the most expensive system in the world.
Insurance companies and drug companies are working hard to spin these facts and promote fictional stories about the horrors of socialized medicine. The facts are, there are more horror stories associated with health care coverage in the US than there is in just about any advanced Western country.