A Short Course in Brain Surgery

[Xavier_Onassis]

If this guy paid the same $9600 per year as you do for his insurance, in three years he would have paid the $28,000 his medical care in Buffalo cost him. If he had invested his money wisely three years ago in some Canadian fund in Canadian dollars, he'd be ahead of you and your astonishing plan.

Anyone that can pay $9600 a year can also save $9600 a year. Most won't, but you can't deny that it is possible. Invested wisely, you could have $38000 after three years.

As it is, he has paid $28,000, he is alive and well, and he MIGHT get his some or part of $28,000 reimbursed by the Province.

So he's still better off in Ontario.

[Amianthus]

If this guy paid the same $9600 per year as you do for his insurance, in three years he would have paid the $28,000 his medical care in Buffalo cost him.

I don't pay the $9,600 as ~ 2/3 of the cost are paid by the employer. As I pointed out, he could have opted for a plan that only cost around $2,400 a year, which would have also paid for the tests.

[Plane]

If this guy paid the same $9600 per year as you do for his insurance, in three years he would have paid the $28,000 his medical care in Buffalo cost him. If he had invested his money wisely three years ago in some Canadian fund in Canadian dollars, he'd be ahead of you and your astonishing plan.

Anyone that can pay $9600 a year can also save $9600 a year. Most won't, but you can't deny that it is possible. Invested wisely, you could have $38000 after three years.

As it is, he has paid $28,000, he is alive and well, and he MIGHT get his some or part of $28,000 reimbursed by the Province.

So he's still better off in Ontario.

What keeps taxes from being an equal cost?