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0 pointsholoduke2y ago0 comments

But your taxes are too low. For example the Netherlands does have a good system. But a 50k car costs 120k in the Netherlands. From your 80k salary 35k goes to the state as taxes. On most products you buy 21% is tax. If someone dies his money is 50% tax. Give 100k as a present. 30k is tax. And so on.

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mikem1702y ago

I've got the Netherlands spending 10.02% of their GDP on health care in 2018 [0], and the U.S. spending 16.68 in that same year [1]. If it were just a matter of money wouldn't that mean that the U.S. is already doing more?

Or is something else making a difference?

How does the Netherlands handle end-of-life care? I see in 2013 that 3.4% of all deaths in the Netherlands were people who chose euthenasia [2]. Maybe that saves their system a lot of money? Maybe they look at end-of-life differently?

In the Netherlands how do they make decisions about who gets possible life saving treatments versus who does not? does anybody who wants state of the art chemo get it, even if they are 80+ years old?

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS?locat...

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.GD.ZS?locat...

[2] https://vivredignite.org/en/2014/09/recent-euthanasia-number...

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