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We're also underestimating how much Americans pay for insurance every month. It's like a whole second rent. Which I guess we pay through higher taxation but then again, we don't have to worry about setting up a gofundme if we get sick. Not to mention the secondary effects of this precarity: the whole premise of Breaking Bad for example doesn't make sense in Canada.
The deficit level is also very extreme in US. Everything so far under Trump means much higher levels, and low growth so that expands faster as % of GDP. The illusion that deficits/debt is free is something GOP complains about when they are out of power, but their "more tax cuts for the rich solution" and soylent green for the rest when they get power doesn't solve the problem.
Collapse of the US will harm world, economically. A good defense to being an attractive takeover target, unfortunately, is defend Canada through large deficits to match their collapse timing, unless we stop making US enemies are own enemies.
Yeah so much of American culture is influenced by their terrible healthcare. Feelgood stories about people pooling together their money to help someone with their medical bills. It making sense to sue a family member for being injured in their house because it'll mean their insurance will cover the medical bills.
It's really insane.