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I’d argue a country that spends $500 billion additional dollars on its military, after spending $800 billion a year, but nobody has healthcare, isn’t worth defe

I’d argue a country that spends $500 billion additional dollars on its military, after spending $800 billion a year, but nobody has healthcare, isn’t worth defending. We’re at the stage of open corruption now that this kind of thing isn’t called out for being as disgusting, but it is. It’s disgusting. This person is an evil ghoul.

mritterhoff 7mo ago
Most Americans have some form of health insurance [1]. I'd argue that my country is worth defending, despite its many flaws. 1. https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p60-288.html https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p60-28...
- analognoise 7mo ago
  About 50,000 Americans die a year due to lack of health insurance. Estimates are about 25k in 2006 years to 60-80k now. Americans are more likely than any other nationality to see other Americans as bad, immoral: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/05/in-25-country-survey-americans-especially-likely-to-view-fellow-citizens-as-morally-bad/ https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/05/in-25-countr... At least Americans have mostly come to realize the problem is other Americans. It’s a little wild to run into someone willing to defend the place.
  - mritterhoff 7mo ago
    You're moving the goalposts. There's tons we can do to improve US healthcare outcomes (we overspend compared to what we get [1]) by emulating what has succeeded in other countries. But that conversation and solution is different than "nobody has healthcare". As to defense, I live here, as do the majority of the people I love and like. It's in my interest to have my country continue to exist as a sovereign nation with the ability to defend itself from foreign adversaries. 1. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health-expenditure https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health...
    - analognoise 7mo ago
      Oh, so some people have healthcare, but it costs multiple times more than it does other places, and we "only" lose a Vietnam War's worth of Americans a year due to medical insurance. My bad, that's okay then. /s Every time I'm like "My fellow Americans are ghouls" somebody reminds me it's OK to lose 50,000 of them a year as long as we have a big military and can provide Israel with enough weapons for their genocide.

mritterhoff 7mo ago

Most Americans have some form of health insurance [1]. I'd argue that my country is worth defending, despite its many flaws. 1. https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p60-288.html https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2025/demo/p60-28...

analognoise 7mo ago
About 50,000 Americans die a year due to lack of health insurance. Estimates are about 25k in 2006 years to 60-80k now. Americans are more likely than any other nationality to see other Americans as bad, immoral: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/05/in-25-country-survey-americans-especially-likely-to-view-fellow-citizens-as-morally-bad/ https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/05/in-25-countr... At least Americans have mostly come to realize the problem is other Americans. It’s a little wild to run into someone willing to defend the place.
- mritterhoff 7mo ago
  You're moving the goalposts. There's tons we can do to improve US healthcare outcomes (we overspend compared to what we get [1]) by emulating what has succeeded in other countries. But that conversation and solution is different than "nobody has healthcare". As to defense, I live here, as do the majority of the people I love and like. It's in my interest to have my country continue to exist as a sovereign nation with the ability to defend itself from foreign adversaries. 1. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health-expenditure https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health...
  - analognoise 7mo ago
    Oh, so some people have healthcare, but it costs multiple times more than it does other places, and we "only" lose a Vietnam War's worth of Americans a year due to medical insurance. My bad, that's okay then. /s Every time I'm like "My fellow Americans are ghouls" somebody reminds me it's OK to lose 50,000 of them a year as long as we have a big military and can provide Israel with enough weapons for their genocide.