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23% of the US federal budget is spent on medicare/medicaid. I'd like to know what percentage of Canadian tax dollars goes to health care.

Posted by Mop (aka rburriel) Aug 20 '09, 21:23

Getting the Canadian numbers may be more complicated since health care is paid of each province's budget (health care in Canada, regardless of what is said about it in the U.S., is actually a diffused system, with each province running its own version). Still, we should be able to figure out how much of each tax dollar paid by a taxpayer goes to health care. If 23% of US taxes goes to medicare and medicaid alone (to say nothing of the 21% that goes to Social Security!), I think we're doing something wrong in the U.S.

Mop

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_budget (en.wikipedia.org)

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One undeniable fact, no matter which way you believe on the issue, is that health care is the fastest growing... - Name Withheld By Request Aug 20, 21:38 9
- Hey, you're into politics. Do you read Garth Turner's blog? - Subversive Aug 20, 22:25
- Euthanasia. -- nm - Mop Aug 20, 21:39 7
  - And now we're back to the death squads. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Aug 20, 21:41 6
    - Like anyone cares if we kill a few Canadians. -- nm - ty97 Aug 20, 22:21
    - Why are we always looking to the Yanks for solutions when we have the answers right at home and always have? Ice floes, people! -- nm - Reagen Aug 20, 21:47 3
      - Wolves -- nm - Roger More Aug 20, 21:50 2
        
        do old people have any kind of pelt that can be harvested? -- nm - Reagen Aug 20, 21:52 1
        
        Yes but Canada's top scienctists are still working on how to get rid of the old person smell -- nm - Roger More Aug 20, 21:54
    - Death *panels*. Or in Quebec, Commissions de la morte. We do commissions well in Quebec. -- nm - Mop Aug 20, 21:42
Wiki says that Canada's healthcare spend is about 10% of Gdp with 70% of that paid for by gov'ts -- nm - Roger More Aug 20, 21:36 1
- And to square the circle, total gov't spend in Canada is about 40% so health makes up about 16% - Roger More Aug 20, 21:43
That doesn't make sense ... what about the black budget military ops ... and the toilet seats? -- nm - Beryllium Aug 20, 21:33
Yeah, I'm not sure there's an apples to apples comparison. -- nm - Reagen Aug 20, 21:32
It could be that looking at percentages will give you an erronious idea of actual burden - TWuG Aug 20, 21:31 2
- tax burdens are actually pretty close when you add everything up, FWIW. -- nm - Reagen Aug 20, 21:35
- Plus, Canada spends, what, a few hundred bucks a year on their military? -- nm - Spawn Aug 20, 21:32
According to this chart, the 2009 Ontario budget has slated 43% of its revenues for health care (for all, not just the poor and seniors). -- (link) - Mop Aug 20, 21:29 1
- Looking at BC's budget numbers, they have revenues of $38bil and health care expenses of about $15bil. So, like Ontario, about 40%. -- nm - Mop Aug 20, 21:38

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23% of the US federal budget is spent on medicare/medicaid. I'd like to know what percentage of Canadian tax dollars goes to health care.

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