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> Take canada. Every canadian individual including children is paying, at a minimum, ~$600 a month for healthcare in taxes.

I’d like to point out that US public health care expenditure per capita is higher than Canada’s public expenditure per capita.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_h...

> They [Canadians] don't think of it that way because it is lumped in to the tax bill. Many people in the US pay much less than this.

There’s a good chance that most Americans are paying less toward gov health expenditures than the average Canadian due to income inequality. But in aggregate, it is more per person.



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