How can we afford a war but not healthcare?

[OddBeMe]

[OneViewpoint]

You are missing the obvious connection here. Allow me me help you out.

• Wars kill people.
• Depriving people of healthcare kills people.

The common theme is that the 1% do not care about killing other people. They care about their own wealth and power.

[OddBeMe]

I don't expect them not to. I just didn't think half of America would help them protect their wealth and power simply because of wedge issues like abortion.

[WindAtMyBack]

So you want the tens of thousands of people who make munitions and other military stuff to lose their jobs and health insurance?

Besides, we have healthcare. You do realize that the government (meaning taxpayers) already pays for most health costs, right? The problem with the government doing it, is that it's extremely wasteful and inefficient. But then that applies to military costs also, and everything else the government does.

[Summermarti]

Easy. The government doesn’t care about giving health to people, they only care about themselves and getting stronger. If they did care about people then they would show it. Taxes go to war funding of what I’ve heard, so technically everyone is supporting it indirectly sadly.

[Agape93]

Too many people, bad lifestyle choices leading to complicated and life-long issues, and not enough tax dollars to fund treatment for over 300,000,000 plus people.

[OddBeMe]

How much would it cost? Any real research or just like to parrot?

[Agape93]

Huh so you don't want peoples ideas, you just want to jump down people's throws today I see. Try again.

[Agape93]

(Also don't accuse me of parroting when your research is a screenshot from Googles ai)

[LC75LC71]

You can't be this naive.. Insurance companies run deep in this country. Even if ACA was reformed, there's still pharma to deal with and hospitals that gain to profit with them. Your shit is about Trump. Mine is about every organization since the Carter administration.

[Dargil]

It is not that he is naive. he has a fatal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. It extends to hating everything about this country except Democrats.

[OddBeMe]

Public option could've done it. Like post office keeps fedex from overcharging.

[Filthy_Immigrant]

we are not even in a war, Einstein.

1. congress has not confirmed we are a war

2. not one soldier has been deployed.

lastly why didn't your hypocrite ass not ask this question years agon when Biden was sending 100s of Billions to Ukraine? over a war that had NOTHING to do with us?

[Dargil]

Government health care consumes $2 trillion a year. The military budget is less than half that. And a lot of it is given to your friend, the Ukraine.

[exitseven]

NATO is financing the war in Ukraine with weapons bought from US defense contractors

[OddBeMe]

Not much more... Defense just got a trillion this year.

[Sevenpointfive]

because money isn't real. they wouldn't know how to budget a dinner for four.

[OddBeMe]

Medicare works just fine

[Sevenpointfive]

we need universal. it shouldn't be privatized.

[Kelley1]

The USA can afford health care, but not unlimited health care. Unlimited health care would be greater than the GDP of the USA.

[lightbulb27]

Good Q. Always been the case, mind boggling isn't it..

[Snakeyes7]

Its not that we can't afford it, its just that everything the state touches turns to shit. The last thing we need is MORE bureaucracy in healthcare. The UK and Canada are prime examples why.

[Ariesman81]

About the same value Biden left for the Taliban... interesting.

[msc545]

Wars are for patriots. Health care is for wimps.

[DryGermanGuy]

Public healthcare = communism 🙄

[exitseven]

The healthcare in the US is exceptional.

[loveslongnails]

It is... exceptionally inefficient and ineffective. The US spends more dollars than any other industrialized nation, per person, with the worst health outcomes. I won't link you because you won't look. Even if you DID look, you'd deny the stats.

The US does one thing well when it comes to health care, and that's highly specialized care. If you have a rare disease, the US is an ok place to be. If you're looking for prevention and education, and treatment for causes instead of symptoms, the US is horrible. The numbers prove it.

Once again, Exit, you're talking out of your ass with no information. Why do you keep doing that? Rhetorical question -- you're a magat.

[exitseven]

@loveslongnails The US is a country where everyone has personal responsibility. We have health issues that people get by choice. The overeat, use drugs, and refuse to exercise. It's not the Healthcare system as much as it is our way of life. People can make their own life expectancy

[OddBeMe]

@loveslongnails he gets his news from NY Post, it's like talking to a log

[loveslongnails]

That's true in EVERY country where you have some choices over your health. What you FAIL to understand is that even if you buy commercially produced farm products from your supermarket, you're eating shit.

You're eating grains and plants grown in soil loaded with glyphosate. That means your breads, your pastas, your canned or frozen veggies too, virtually everything you eat, has poison in it. Foods in supermarkets are sprayed with Produce Maxx, an anti-microbial deemed "safe" by the EPA (which can't be trusted under Trump, for sure) but has been in use for years. However, they don't disclose this, nor that you should wash your produce thoroughly, not to mention the hundreds or thousands of miles it may have traveled to get to you, and the number of hands laid on it. Don't even START to talk about meat and eggs.

Once again, as usual, you completely MISS the point about Health Care and the current system.
Once again, as usual, you completely DEFEND a Capitalist exploitive system that profits investors and owners of companies, INSTEAD of devoting taxpayer money to real, non-profit health care because ---- wait for it ---------- were' CITIZENS and that's where our money SHOULD go.

Once again, as usual, you simp for the wealthy.
Once again, you completely disregard the role that TRUTHFUL education plays in being healthy.

Well, you can't exactly TELL people the truth about what they're eating AND continue to be profitable by billions of dollars --- can you Exit?

[loveslongnails]

True that, amigo.

[exitseven]

@loveslongnails without investors there would be no food for anyone.

[loveslongnails]

You're unhinged buddy. LOL What does that have to do with this topic?

[exitseven]

@loveslongnails blaming investors for food additives is ridiculous.

[loveslongnails]

WTF are you babbling about now? We're talking about the Health Care system, for one, and I'm also talking about how your food source is systematically poisoned. Did I mention the word "investors" ? NO. I said the Health Care system in the USA is for PROFIT, not PEOPLE. It's a business, like the oil business.

Are you losing it too now, like your daddy?

[permanentem]

Sounds like you need to get a job.

[Jeff51]

Free Healthcare sounds good

[loveslongnails]

It wouldn't be free. You pay for it with your taxes, but the point is we're already paying enough in taxes to afford it. The problem is where our tax money is going, which is to a huge defense budget.

Health care like there is in a country like New Zealand, for example, will NEVER happen in the USA because their system is non-profit. Health care in the USA is strictly FOR profit, not people. It will never change unless you rip down the entire health care model and go to a single payer system.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Stupid REPIGLIKSCUM voters !!!