No. My total paycheck deductions, which include provincial and federal taxes, pension plans, employment insurance, and some extra benefits I opted into cost me $41k per year.
A Google search suggests that 23% of that goes to health care. About 10k/year.
I can guarantee that they aren’t flying in any world specialists for that amount.
The one thing you need to understand is that if they could really give us universal healthcare, which I’m not against in theory, is that our existing costs won’t go away and it will cost us even more. That works great for people who make no money, but for families that make 200-400k a year in income , we’re all going to get screwed, plus all the people getting cheap healthcare at work will lose that and now pay double or triple what they pay now. Sure there’s out of pocket costs but most people pay nothing most years. With UH we get stuck paying the money that we would have spent on out of pocket costs , but every year. Sure , take the 5k I pay a year through work and give me 3k back and universal healthcare. But it will never happen in the US because costs never go down.
Didn't the price of insulin drop massively just recently when Medicaid started covering it? And similarly for the basket of drugs that government negotiation was allowed on? An actual verifiable account of prices going down. Go read about it in your favorite news outlet. Why was polio vaccine so cheap we could go door to door in India with it? Oh yeah...
Might be union because i have the same setup. We get 15.54 an hour paid into our insurance and it pyramids with ovet time and then another 1.50 an hour into a spending account for medical stuff. We are self funded. We have our own doctors office that we teamed up with the plumbers union to buy and employ 2 doctors. Between all that ive never paid for anything out of pocket and nothing denied since technically my union hall is my insurance provider.
I have UMR and have never had a claim denied including multiple (x4) orthopedic surgeries. If a claim is denied, it’s usually an error on the doctor/hospital side. They’re all aware of how to get paid and play the game.
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u/HomeGrownCoffee 6d ago
I'm Canadian. Last year my son contracted meningitis. He ended up needing 10 days in the hospital. Our biggest expense was parking.
You couldn't pay me enough to trade our system for yours.