• @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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        14 days ago

        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

      • @protist@mander.xyz
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        414 days ago

        It’s not though, tax cuts are responsible for that, and obstinance in the face of potential tax increases

      • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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        That’s usually what a defense budget is for.

        The healthcare budget is for healthcare strangely enough.

        • balderdash
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          SatansMagotyCumFart, are you being intentionally or unintentionally dense?

              • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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                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.

              • @Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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                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.

              • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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                314 days ago

                I think everyone thirteen and older should get government-supplied methamphetamine rations to increase the GDP.

                • @fah_Q@lemmy.ca
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                  I think you should take the entire ration of gov supply meth. Oh sheeeeet I believe you already did.

              • @Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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                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.

          • @papertowels
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            514 days ago

            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.

          • @Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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            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.

    • @yeahiknow3@lemmings.world
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      14 days ago

      This is $3000 per American. We could easily cut it in half and allocate the savings to something useful, like healthcare.

      • @Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
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        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

      • @Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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        514 days ago

        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.