Kathy is back from Canada today. She has learned lots about Canadian employment law and social medicine. Canadians have about twice the amount of taxes witheld, and about 50% of the tax base goes towards healthcare. The social insurance, however, only includes stuff that is done during an office visit. Anything else is not covered at all and you need supplemental insurance anyway to cover anything else (generously provided by your employer, if you're lucky). Sounds like a waste of taxes to me, since they still need to have other insurance to actually cover stuff.
Although I think if you offer insurance to some of your employees, you must also offer it to others in a different country even if social healthcare is provided.
How much of our tax base goes to healthcare anyway? I know there are free clinics, but maybe those are all privately sponsored.
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(1) Tue Mar 08 2005 12:42 MST:
My goal today is to be as productive as possible. (don't worry, I'm not clocked in). I've done lots of filing, put my store order away, and other various projects.
(4) Tue Mar 08 2005 17:39 MST:
The Girl Scout cookies I ordered came today. Yummy!