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Americans chose great army instead of healthcare.
by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 5y ago
Americans chose great army instead of healthcare.
- iso1631 5y agoThe US government still spends more on healthcare as a total amount per person (about $1.4T, or $3,880 per person, just for medicare+medicaid), compared with the UK (about $3,300 per person) The US as a whole in 2019 spent 16% of its GDP on Health, 4% on Military The UK meanwhile spent 10% on Health and 3% on Military
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 5y agoHave you been to a doctors office in the US? There are more administrators filling out insurance papers than doctors. US spends money on healthcare administration, not on healthcare. The same dollar in the US buys ten times less insulin than a dollar in Canada.
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoThey even chose "socialized medicine for the Army" to further drive the point home.
- splintercell 5y agoSoon you will learn what happens when Americans don’t choose a great army.
- iso1631 5y agoWell this "great army" doesn't seem to have stopped Putin invading Ukraine Caused a few wars though
- splintercell 5y agoI suggest listening to Peter Zeihan. Americans have stopped caring about the world order, this is the consequence of that.
- weberer 5y agoThe United States spends more money per capita in healthcare than any country in the world, and 2-3x as much as most European welfare states. There are a lot of problems with the system, but "not enough money funneling into it" is not one of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...