Why Russia is no more

[Serb]

And sick!

[Kidlicious]

Nope!
Salaries is a one thing GDP is another!
The GDP is not about the salaries at all, silly. It's a summ of all products and services produced by a country, but not a summ of salaries paid to employees!

GDP is basically your national income. It doesn't matter. Russians pay 5.6% of GDP (income) on health care.

[Serb]

Learn some basic economic terms, really.
The GDP doesn't equal to the summ of salaries within a country.

[Serb]

Once again - an employee pays a percentage of his salary (regardless of the size of his salary it's still 3,2%) monthly for his medical assurance.
He doesn't give a sh!t (from the point of view of his personal expenses) how many percents of GDP a state spends on healthcare.
For him it's an already paid service!

[Serb]

That is called a Socialism - the thing you can't understand!

[Serb]

An equal access to medicine for all people, not just for the rich ones!

[Kidlicious]

Learn some basic economic terms, really.
The GDP doesn't equal to the summ of salaries within a country.

Maybe the rest comes from oil revenue. You still pay it.

[Serb]

The individual taxpayer doesn't!

[Serb]

And yes! The rest comes from oil revenues and other products and servises produced by the country.

[Serb]

But not from salaries!
GDP is a summ of all products and servises by a country. That includes an additional values, you call a profits. So basically GDP - salaries = additional values and visa verse - GDP = Salaries + profits (which is equal to the prices of all goods and servises produced).
So, 3.2% of salaries doesn't equal to 3.2% of GDP!

[Kidlicious]

Good grief. I'm not arguing that you don't pay 3.2% out of your salary. I'm saying you pay more some other way.

[Serb]

And that's called socialism!

[Serb]

The rich pay more than the poor ones. But that is necessary for survival of the society.

[Kidlicious]

The rich pay more than the poor ones. But that is necessary for survival of the society.

No it isn't. That's why you don't have as much investment in the future.

[Serb]

When your child will be dying of cancer and you don't have money to save him, you would preffer to live in Russia, where healthcare is free, then to lost him for the best of the future of humankind!