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@Smitchapotamus @sablelane @castamongheroes @donniethelion @allyzay Sorry u carnt opt out

@sablelane @castamongheroes @donniethelion @willy6618 @allyzay 32c on the $1?? That seems quite high when after all my benefits, retirement, and taxes are taken out I take home 73c on the $1. Are you able to opt for private insurance through the company you work for you have to pay that regardless?

@Smitchapotamus @sablelane @castamongheroes @donniethelion @allyzay U have to pay Medicare Levi is about 1000$ a year but when retired get a Heath care card which gives u discounts on land rates for your house power and gas and lots of other things

@jarobinme @69mgc @WhiiteGuySushi @FERNAND62209620 @donniethelion @allyzay Your correct there are a couple of steps in there but not enough space on here to go through it but the 45% kick in after 180k so less tax up till then

@69mgc @WhiiteGuySushi @FERNAND62209620 @willy6618 @donniethelion @allyzay Thats not the way taxes like that normally work.. if you're taxed 18% up to 180k but you make 185k youre only taxed 45% on that extra 5k, not the whole 185..

@KaiPMDH @RaceCarDriver_ @donniethelion @allyzay True it’s just how they spend it changes

@blearghhh @donniethelion @allyzay Same in Australia

@donniethelion @willy6618 @allyzay Overall tax burden in Canada is generally speaking higher than it is in the US, but not extraordinarily so. Tax burden in Canada is significantly lower than tax and health insurance. By a significant margin

@mikescuse @donniethelion @allyzay The will always get paid by the tax payer

@mikescuse @donniethelion @allyzay To true

@c_tolkien @donniethelion @allyzay That’s because they are paying coprate rates as most of the hospitals are privately or corporate with big profits as a motive

@donniethelion @willy6618 @allyzay US govt already spends more on healthcare as a percentage of GPD than countries with free healthcare.

@mikescuse @donniethelion @allyzay Or corporate donations to political party’s which control policy for them they don’t want to loose there campaign funds

@indiecrowarts @allyzay I totally agree a measure of a country is how it looks after its citizen especially with disability’s when u get a chance google the ndis in Australia it is new

@willy6618 @allyzay If it wasn’t impossible to leave this country I would (I love my country but I literally can’t afford to even treat my own disability- it’s ridiculous) It’s fine if people want private healthcare- but universal should be a bare minimum

@kaelikate @donniethelion @allyzay Social security we don’t contribute to part of tax we pay we also have minimum wage of about 21$ an hour plus 4 weeks paid leave with 17.5% holiday loading we do have gst of 10% but food water exempt

In Australia we have a mantra a fair go for all

I have a family history of bowel cancer so every 3 years I get a colonoscopy and it costs me nothing zero$

In Australia we have the pbs so drugs that might normally cost thousands (new expensive) drugs can cast as little as 15 $ also there is a cutoff I think it is about 2.5k$ if u spend that much your medication is free for the rest of the year

To clarify in Australia ambulance membership costs about 33$ a year if u don’t have it u can get some very big bills when I was saying about car accident we pay for tac as part of our car registration so if u have a car accident and don’t have ambulance cover it is still free

In America they seam to have forgotten there roll to look after there citizens / taxpayers none of this will be fixed until u have compulsory voting because it is a case of the small number of party driven voters vote while the rest (majority ) don’t

@allyzay With universal health care u only need to concern your self with getting better also pathology in Australia is included in Medicare and is billed to the government so every year my dr does ha heap of blood test just to make shore I am in great Health

@allyzay Hi I am from Australia it seams to be a right of all Americans to get exorbitant medical bills we have universal health care here called Medicare free for everybody we also have traffic accident cover free airlift to nearest major hospital free of charge and it could be 1000km

@donniethelion @allyzay 100k and above pay 2k a year