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Why would healthcare be in the defense budget?
It wouldnt, but this is the reason we "can't afford" healthcare
Your government pays more per capita than anywhere else in the world for healthcare, so you can actually afford it without cutting the defense budget
It's not though, tax cuts are responsible for that, and obstinance in the face of potential tax increases
They got money for wars...
That's usually what a defense budget is for.
The healthcare budget is for healthcare strangely enough.
SatansMagotyCumFart, are you being intentionally or unintentionally dense?
I don't know much about this topic, but I'm seeing a lot of uncontested claims of "us spends more on healthcare per capita" in this thread, leading me to believe that more money won't fix the underlying problem.
Okay, I know that user, and they're a fuckwit, but they're right. If you think defense spending is why we don't have universal health care, you're extremely uninformed.
Which is somewhat excusable if you're not American, but if your are, for shame, my dudes.
Unintentionally I guess, I just wonder what the defense budget has to do with healthcare.
There should be less defense budget and more healthcare budget
What's funny is that there should be less healthcare budget because the current cost per capita for the whole US is the highest in the world even though public healthcare only covers a minority of people. If actual universal public healthcare was implemented like in any rich country then healthcare spendings would go down dramatically.
We already spend more on healthcare per capita than almost every other country.
More healthcare budget won't give us universal health care. All we need is the existing budget, plus single payer.
I think
There should be less defense budget
Is the reason tankies brought this post up. They don't actually give a shit about health care.
I think everyone thirteen and older should get government-supplied methamphetamine rations to increase the GDP.
I think you should take the entire ration of gov supply meth. Oh sheeeeet I believe you already did.
This is $3000 per American. We could easily cut it in half and allocate the savings to something useful, like healthcare.
Bear in mind you already spend more per capita on healthcare than countries with universal healthcare , it's just you don't get anything for it, except the opportunity to make some different billionaires richer
So yeah you could add it to that and I dunno, buy some megayachts for someone or something
We don't need to. We could take the existing amount spent on healthcare, re-organize as universal healtch care single payer, and spend the same amount.
Even better.
The soldiers need it