Reply #24: actually... [View All]

don't know if anyone will read this since it is so high up on the thread...

We paid the same amount of taxes when we lived in germany and we had the option of choosing either private insurance or the universal insurance. My dh had private, I had govt. I received excellent care, had same day appointments, had a successful delivery of my oldest son and free prescriptions during pregnancy...and our children would have had free meds/dental care until they were 19.

Also..for the same money that we pay here, our children could have gone to university for free.

It's all about WHAT you do with the money that you're already taking.

To top it off, salaries were much higher. I had a menial job back then and I earned nearly 3 times what I would have earned here....after taxes, I still made more.

Don't fool yourself.