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Well USA does fund National Institutes of Health for Cancer, Heart Disease, etc.

• imglorp 11y ago
  Not in earnest, compared to around $1T security budget, no, it's not vaguely close. http://www.pogo.org/our-work/straus-military-reform-project/defense-budget/2014/americas-one-trillion-national-security-budget.html http://www.pogo.org/our-work/straus-military-reform-project/...
  • tosseraccount 11y ago
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/U.S._Federal_Spending_-_FY_2011.png/800px-U.S._Federal_Spending_-_FY_2011.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/U.... U.S. Federal government spends more on health care than defense.
    • dragonwriter 11y ago
      Which is pretty much irrelevant; "health care" and "health research" aren't the same thing. Anyhow, in terms of health care to defense ratio the US -- despite spending more of the nation's GDP, and far more per capita, in public health care than many other developed countries providing universal, all-public care (and even though the nation spends more than the same amount, in addition, in private healthcare spending) -- is still lower than most countries in the world. So, even looking at health care rather than health research, the US spends relatively little proportional to its defense budget when compared to other nations. Then again, the US not too long ago was outspending the rest of the planet on defense, and is still at a bit over a third of the planet's total military spending, so compared to other nations the US spends relatively little on anything compared to defense.
• lostlogin 11y ago
  Compare that budget to the budgets spent on 'terrorism'.