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Originally Posted by Rathji
You are suggesting that the US can't have a single payer health care system because of defense spending?
Or that they can't pay for poor people's health care because of war?
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I'm suggesting that the US could potentially pay for national health care, without raising overall taxes from the level that they are today, by cutting overall military spending and cease funding/subsidizing other nations' defense programs.
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Originally Posted by GGG
In your defence vs health arguement you are missing the fact that the US(private and public combined) has the highest per capita spending on health care in the world. The US chooses to spend it to not cover everyone.
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Well, yes, and one reason for the high spending is the lack of drug price negotiation by Medicare. The US government should not, in my view, be responsible for the majority of drug maker's R&D costs and profits---cut the drug prices in the US and let other nation's citizens pay a larger portion of drug maker's R&D costs and profits.