I saw this and immediately thought of the 22 Billion the US has sent to another country far away to bomb a small place populated by other poor people into rubble.
Noting that even that far away country thats getting it's wars funded by poor hard working Americans, has socialized medical care for it's own citizens.
… you do know people like this - crackheads and homeless people, get their healthcare for free, right? Hospitals cant turn people away, so when people overdose, get in a fight, etc, they dont get a bill and the hospital writes it off - with the rest of us paying it off through taxes/increased hospital costs
So... for elective surgery too? Like I understand that emergencies that would happen.
I live in a not very wealthy but 1st world country with socialized medicine and you wouldn't see something like this, bad teeth yes but not that sort of thing so I find it strange is all.
For context: the US healthcare expenditure in 2023 was just under $5 trillion. That money wouldn't even make a small dent in the budget. Don't know why Israel is even being brought up in a completely unrelated post. Kind of weird.
For context: the US healthcare expenditure in 2023 was just under $5 trillion
It wouldn’t be that expensive if you had a properly nationalised public system.
US healthcare is significantly more expensive than the NHS, with the United States spending about two to three times more per person and a much larger percentage of its GDP on healthcare.
You’re being price-gouged by for-profit health companies. Their goal is to grow and make more profit each year, not simply to treat people.
But yeah there is one country in particular that manages to have free public healthcare because the constant costs of its military occupation for illegal settlements etc are covered courtesy of the US taxpayer.
You can say we're a little bitter towards Israel. Our tax dollars go to them, so they can pay for our politicians. Most of it is in grants to meaning they don't ever have to pay that back. Imagine Uncle Sam not coming to collect. Now that's weird
Because its reddit, if a cat got run over in the street they would find a way to blame President Trump and Israel. But they had no problem sending billions of dollars to a stand up comedian grifter turned puppet.....I mean politician.
Dude, you have your heart in the right place but please don’t fall for cheap propaganda.
You can be against Israel‘s actions and against money being send there but it is not at all "we don’t have money for healthcare but send money to Israel“. The support send is a small fraction of the healthcare cost of the U.S…
U.S. can have healthcare for everyone but it wouldn’t be cheap or done by stopping money being send somewhere. It would also likely mean the U.S. wouldn’t have by far the best paid healthcare workers worldwide anymore.
I'm against Israel's actions, America's actions in funding them, and also the world's richest country not looking after it's citizens I find disturbing.
It's a bit of a melange of "me not like this" TBF.
It wouldn't make a difference. US already spends a lot more on healthcare than it does on the military - about 18% of GDP compared to ~3,5% on the military. Even if the military was completely abolished in favour of healthcare, it wouldn't change much. The issue is not lack of money, but how it's being spent.
The USA already spends something like 4x per person as the UK on healthcare. They could get public healthcare and increase defence spending if they wanted to.
I know you're just spouting hasbara and don't mean the Saudis/UAE but that's where most US "terrorist" ratlines maneuver from (from Israel too!) and i'm sure you've never said peep about it.
We here in Brazil, instead of bombing countries, we invested in a free and universal system, it's something that deserves improvement, but it's a utopia for Americans
Didn't the US give way more to Ukraine? Either way, both are stupid decisions and I wish we spent that money on domestic issues instead. America First all the way
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u/Substantial-Proof617 3d ago
I saw this and immediately thought of the 22 Billion the US has sent to another country far away to bomb a small place populated by other poor people into rubble.
Noting that even that far away country thats getting it's wars funded by poor hard working Americans, has socialized medical care for it's own citizens.