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Originally Posted by HockeyIlliterate
Well, one way for the US to come up with more money for health care (without raising taxes) is to cut overall military spending and stop funding/subsidizing other nations' defense programs.
Do you think that Canada would be okay with that? Poland? South Korea? Or pick any almost any other country.
After all, it is probably relatively easy for a country to provide a national health care system to its citizens when it can offload a portion of its defense obligations to another nation. So, in that respect, perhaps the poor and uninsured in the US should really look to Canadians, Poles, South Koreans, and the citizens of other such nations as the reason why they don't have affordable health care.
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Yeah, it's my fault, as a Canadian, that some poor woman in Mississippi can't afford healthcare for her children.
The reason the US pays so much for defense is because that's what your government decides to spend your money on.
They don't have bases all over the world to be nice. They have bases all over the world -- and pay for bases all over the world -- because they want to project power all over the world.
It's not altruism. It's a decision made by your lawmakers to prioritize military spending over everything else.
Americans just elected a belligerent dickhead and he's bringing in a bunch of hawks. You can't pin your healthcare system's problems on anyone else.