So you’re anti-cop and pro taxes, huh?

Anywho:

Canada has worst ER / referral wait times in 11 developed countries.

Canada’s healthcare wait times hit new record high, again.

Canada’s system of socialized medicine has created high taxes and suffering patients. That’s not what Americans want or deserve.

The healthcare costs in Canada are rising at a disproportionate rate: “For the average Canadian family, between 1997 and 2017, the cost of public health care insurance increased 3.2 times as fast as the cost of food, 2.7 times as fast as the cost of clothing, 1.9 times as fast as the cost of shelter, and 1.8 times faster than average income.”

Americans are more likely to see a specialist far more quickly than in Canada. “In the United States, 70% of patients are able to be seen by specialists less than four weeks after a referral,” a 2019 report detailed. “In Canada, less than 40% were seen inside of four weeks. After being advised that they need a procedure done, only about 35% of Canadians had their surgery within a month, whereas in the United States, 61% did. After four months, about 97% of Americans were able to have their surgery, whereas Canada struggled to achieve 80%.”

Canadians pay out-of-pocket health costs close to what Americans pay, yet Canada’s tax burden is 36 percent to 51 percent higher than America’s. These extra taxes are largely driven by government health care costs. Despite this tax burden, government rationing via “global budgets” leaves Canadians to face long waiting lists, shortages of equipment, outdated drugs, and endemic staff shortages.

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You don’t get to CITE only right-wing propaganda sites, and then complain of one or two Wikipedia entries, especially as they ALWAYS provide copious citations of their own. And misrepresenting my positions on unrelated issues smacks of desperation.

ACTUAL U.S. U6 TABLE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE 1 APR 2022 6.9%* [W/LTU 24.6%]

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/U6RATE

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/never-ending-little-changed-unemployment-figures-january-2013

http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/april-unemployment-rate-lowest-may-2007-6106

*Does NOT Include Long-Term Unemployment (Total 24.6% - See Below)

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts

UNEMPLOYMENT RATES IN PROGRESSIVE/SOCIAL DEMOCRACIES

DENMARK 2.5%

NORWAY*** 3.4%

NETHERLANDS 3.4%

ICELAND*** 4.5%

GERMANY 5.0%

FINLAND 6.7%

EUROPEAN UNION 6.8%

***ICELAND AND NORWAY NOT E.U. MEMBERS

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/unemployment-rate?continent=europe

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/tipsun30/default/table?lang=en

NEW ZEALAND 3.2%

AUSTRALIA 4.0%

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/unemployment-rate?continent=australia

https://www.stats.govt.nz/

https://www.abs.gov.au/

HOW IT’S DONE - WHAT THESE COUNTRIES HAVE IN COMMON

Higher Minimum-Wage/Prevailing Wage Than U S

https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=RMW

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_country

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Labor/Salaries-and-benefits/Minimum-wage

https://glabor.org/wp/platform/data/

https://wageindicator.org/salary/minimum-wage

Green Economic And Social Policies (Environmental Performance Index)

https://epi.envirocenter.yale.edu/

https://epi.yale.edu/epi-results/2020/component/epi

https://epi.envirocenter.yale.edu/results-overview

Socialized Higher Education (Free Post-Secondary Education)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_education#List_of_countries_with_free_post-secondary_education

High Trade/Labor Union Participation

https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=CBC

https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=TUD

http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Labor/Trade-union-membership

High Government Transparency Ratings (Less Corruption)

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021

Equitable Distribution Of Income

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality

Universal Healthcare

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_coverage_by_country

http://www.quora.com/What-countries-offer-universal-health-care-and-free-college-education

Longevity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy

Universal Literacy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate

https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/references/guide-to-country-comparisons/

Lower Crime Rate

https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp

Lower Homicide Rate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

Farthest Right U S State VS Furthest Left U S State

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z1ebjpgk2654c1_#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=unemployment_rate&fdim_y=seasonality:S&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:US&idim=state:ST4800000000000:ST5000000000000&ifdim=country&hl=en_US&dl=en_US&ind=false

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=c8op9mhgodplq_&ctype=l&met_y=median_income_current#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=median_income_current&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:US&idim=region:northeast:south:midwest:west&ifdim=country&hl=en_US&dl=en_US&ind=false

https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=b1tlmra7lb7a9_#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=crime_rate&fdim_y=crime_type:violent&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=state:TX:VT&ifdim=country&hl=en_US&dl=en_US&ind=false

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_homicide_rate

SEE A PATTERN? FORWARD AND TO THE LEFT, PLEASE…

*JUST SO WE’RE CLEAR, I SPENT AN AFTERNOON WATCHING FAUX NEWS (SHUDDER) AND RECORDING ALL OF THE THINGS THAT REPUBLICANS SAY KILL JOBS, AND THEN DID THE RESEARCH TO SEE IF ANY OF THEIR CLAIMS HOLD UP IN THE REAL WORLD.

WHAT I FOUND WAS THAT THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE. IN FACT, THOSE COUNTRIES WHICH TOOK THESE POLICIES TO THE FURTHEST EXTREMES ALL SEEMED TO OUTPERFORM THE US WHEN IT COMES TO EMPLOYMENT.

SO I CREATED A SURVEY OF ONLY THOSE COUNTRIES, EXCLUDING ANY THAT DID NOT FIT ALL OF THE CRITERIA. FOR EXAMPLE, I EXCLUDED BELGIUM, BECAUSE, EVEN THOUGH THEY FIT MOST CRITERIA, THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD IS ACTUALLY WORSE THAN OURS, HOWEVER, IN CASE YOU WERE CURIOUS, THEIR UNEMPLOYMENT RATE WAS STILL LOWER.

I ALSO FOUND THAT THEY BEAT US WHEN IT CAME TO EVERY OTHER SOCIAL MEASURE I COULD THINK OF…?

Actually, North American unemployment stats are pretty misleading and don’t report the real jobless rate and the poverty it creates.

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts

For example, European countries measure their real unemployment far more honestly and comprehensively than the US [which is what I’m referring to. Bill Clinton had the long-term unemployed removed from the Dept Of Labor’s stats in 1994]

For example, in France now the official jobless rate is 7.4%—that’s quite a bit higher than the US, which has an official rate of 3.6%.

However, France, like Italy and Germany, which all have a 35-hour regular work week, consider anyone working less than 11 hours a week to be unemployed, and adult full-time post-secondary students training in a recognized profession are considered part of the work force and therefore unemployed as well—in addition to employable welfare recipients.

http://tinyurl.com/2exnpzx

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/…/feature/fr0103138f.html

http://tinyurl.com/34yk4e4

The US does not include students and has no minimum hours provisions in its calculations. By these standards, if you worked, even an hour in a week during the federal survey, you’re considered employed. If you didn’t work and hadn’t looked for a job in four weeks, you’re not considered part of the work force. Non-disabled adult welfare recipients and the huge chronic poor populations, especially in urban areas, aren’t considered either. Canada is similar.

So if you apply US-style measures to France, the rate turns out to be 4%. Now, if you apply French measures to the US, the rate jumps to a whopping 24.6%—that’s largely because of the huge under-employed low-paid part-time work force in the US, and the huge number of employable welfare recipients and chronic poor.

Thank you @ritchiepage2001newaccount for researching and countering more right wing nut drivel. Super thanks for enduring over 10 seconds of Fox (hate and fake) News to show those demagogues up.