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"Spending more on health care sounds like it should improve health, but our study suggests that is not the case and social spending could be used to improve the health of everyone," says Dr. Daniel Dutton, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. "Relative to health care, we spend little on social services per person, so redistributing money to social services from health care is actually a small change in health care spending."
Health care costs are expanding in many developed countries like Canada, and governments are seeking ways to contain costs while maintaining a healthy population. Treating the social determinants of health like income, education, or social and physical living environments through spending on social services can help address the root causes of disease and poor health. However, health spending continues to make up the lion's share of spending.
[...] The commentary author suggests governments should allocate social spending fairly for both young and old to ensure that the younger generation is not being shortchanged.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180122104016.htm
[Related]: The need for health in all policies in Canada
(Score: 2, Insightful) by aristarchus on Wednesday January 24 2018, @12:21AM (17 children)
What right does the government have to extract from my my hard earned wealth with the violent imposition of tax (wealth re-appropriating) schemes, just for the social services that the TMB needs, like education and etiquette training? It just feelz wrong to me!
And has anyone else noticed the increasing Canadian influence on SoylentNews? One day, not too long ago, there was nothing on the front page that was not either about Canada or submitted by Canadians, or somehow involved maple syrup or Poutine and socialist medicine.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @12:44AM (8 children)
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Wednesday January 24 2018, @12:49AM
If you do not doubt, obviously you did not understand what I posted. In Irish myth, there is a story about the Salmon of Knowledge. Douglas Adams changed it iinto the "Salmon of Doubt".
(Score: 5, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 24 2018, @03:48AM (6 children)
And yet, you went off and did it anyway...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 4, Informative) by aristarchus on Wednesday January 24 2018, @04:33AM (5 children)
And to remind some birds of carrion, disagreement is not a valid reason for down-mods. Instead, you should offer a valid rational argument in response to a parody of your position, which, by the way, is pretty funny, if I do say so myself.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 24 2018, @06:53AM (4 children)
He hasn't got one. On the other thread a ways back, he was reduced multiple times to rocking back and forth and screeching like an autist that taxes are theft because shut up you fucking commie moron cunt. I'm pretty sure the entire site has his number now.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday January 24 2018, @07:43AM (3 children)
I admit I missed it. Should I be sorry about?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 24 2018, @09:42PM (2 children)
Well, you're one of the ones who had it before that. Basically, in the Davos topic, he's been reduced to shrieking at the top of his carrion-smelling flow-through lungs that taxation is theft and that's the bottom line, and fuck everyone else, no one is getting one red cent out of him.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday January 24 2018, @09:50PM (1 child)
Ah, sounds his "natural" reaction.
He's so keen to defend the rights of those who 'uck him deep I start to believe he likes it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday January 25 2018, @01:31AM
Oh, dear, c0lo!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by http on Wednesday January 24 2018, @05:51AM (1 child)
We canadians don't have a freedom of speech clause or amendment in our constitution. If we talk shit about anything political, we can be denied health care. It's a strong incentive to go abroad and use aliases when we're having an election. Since our elections aren't on fixed dates like in USA, it's a low background noise spread over the entire year rather than all in two weeks.
I browse at -1 when I have mod points. It's unsettling.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday January 24 2018, @06:12AM
Hosehead!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @02:22PM (1 child)
If by wealth you mean the stuff you buy with money, well no. But if you mean US currency, then you really are mistaken; you may hold it, but you never own it. The government owns it; it lends it to the public, using banks as an intermediary, and then asks for it back, in the form of taxation. Taxation creates demand for the currency, and gives it value; it is no coincidence that a collapse of trust in government and unwillingness to pay taxes is correlated with unstable currency regimes, particularly prone to hyperinflation.
See, like vaccines, taxation isn't about you. Its about us, together. Tax dodgers are like draft dodgers; worthy of contempt.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @10:11PM
no, the government doesn't own it. the international banksters wrested that control away when the federal reserve was formed. now they loan it to the fed gov and the fed gov uses our slave labor as collateral on the loan. they even made the us dollar a copy of the greenback so people would still think the gov owned the money. it's all a fraud.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Immerman on Wednesday January 24 2018, @03:27PM (1 child)
What right have you to profit at the expense of your fellow man based on decidedly unnatural social constructs such as private property, designed specifically to be self-catalyzing engines of wealth concentration?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 24 2018, @10:15PM
Because they're the smart ones who figured it out!! Obviously it is their natural superiority at work and thus natural they should be awarded more of humanity's resources. Cause fuck you, I'd rather watch you die. Unless you need a shirt, then apparently you can have TMB's.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday January 24 2018, @06:58PM (1 child)
Why?
(Score: 3, Funny) by acid andy on Thursday January 25 2018, @05:29PM
Oh, alack, alack! Oh woe is me! Oh how the strength of my butthurtitude doth scale the lofty heights of a zenithal singularity!
*Mods DOWN into the lowly depths of a nadiral singularity*
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