Imagine living in EU and paying even more for tech!,(reply>), @Sanger_dk Cheaper? I just did a 30 second Google search and it's not? Hmmm,(reply>), Actually not really, gpus here are actually cheaper,(reply>), @TesMat ​ "forced to pay taxes". All taxes are forced," that's the definition of a tax. There's a saying that taxation is the only form of legal theft.<br><br>But", you seem to have ignored what I said entirely, and actually spread a falsehood in your reply. Taxation is an expense. The US pays the most per capita on healthcare, largely because it has both a public and a private healthcare system.<br><br>You are talking about the differences in cost upfront for a surgery. In a tax system, you are still paying the full price of the surgery if you are middle class or lower, and you are paying extra for the same surgery if you are wealthy. Just because you don't pay upfront doesn't mean you aren't paying, you just pay every tax season, and on your extremely high VAT.<br><br>Again, you're paying for everything Americans are paying for, why you deny this, I do not know, and is actually a form of severe confirmation bias. I am a Canadian saying this. There are pros and cons to paying through taxes or paying through an insurance company or paying upfront. Here in Canada we get to enjoy very long wait times compared to the US. The US also develops that vast majority of medical innovations due to its private sector healthcare industry (take the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for example). There is no such thing as magic, if someone is making money, they are getting paid.,(reply>), @Peter Njeim If you're forced to pay taxes I wouldn't consider that an expense, so in the case that you pay for a surgery what you end up paying in Europe is significantly less than what you would end up paying in the US for the same surgery. (taking in consideration one that your insurance do not cover),(reply>), @TesMat no, it is not. Why didn't you bother looking it up? Here in Canada, 75% of our taxes are spent on healthcare federally, and far more provincially. Think of it like this, all of the doctors' salaries, all hospital staff, all hospital upkeep, it's all paid for through taxes. Saying "what you pay is basically insignificant" is quite literally saying healthcare workers get paid an insignificant amount. There is no magic involved. I retract my statement on your knowledgeability.