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Why Rich USA Can't Afford Medicare for All but Has Spent $5.6 Trillion on War?

This Article is from 2017 please read it and than argue

Nation That Says It Can't Afford Medicare for All Has Spent $5.6 Trillion on War Since 9/11
Because, as new study notes, wars force the question: "What we might have done differently with the money spent?" https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/11/08/nation-says-it-cant-afford-medicare-all-has-spent-56-trillion-war-911?fbclid=IwAR1eddRzskabNA9tCdPA-ZwC4YkyJ3D8ytkKwx0dp5KxpkwRomY6lrC0VLo
MrBrownstone · 46-50, M Best Comment
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QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@MrBrownstone Our rather paltry amount of foreign aid is mostly military aid that we use to buy influence around the world, while keeping orders flowing to our military contractors. Foreign aid is not about altruism. It's about geopolitics and national interests.
drdej19 · 70-79, M
@MrBrownstone Moderators please I want to TOOT/RETWEET...GAP this one is perfect

BlueVeins · 22-25
The bigger question is how we can afford privatized healthcare but not M4A when the former is much more expensive in practice.
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drdej19 · 70-79, M
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@Kingfish28 Congrats, you are no longer living in a superpower.
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SW-User
Because improving the lives of people is socialism and we can’t have that. Plus some people in the U.S. would rather see another country destroyed than fix their own.
SW-User
I have no arguments. I live in the US and I am disgusted that we choose expensive foreign wars over the health and welfare of our own people.
TexChik · F
most dont want socialized medicine , 70% plus taxation , and loss of any choice in healthcare ...and it costs 72 Trillion ... not gonna happen
chrisCA · M
Now you stop with them thar commie ideas. 😏
SW-User
@chrisCA 🤣 Yeah. Ya, dirty hippie!
CountScrofula · 41-45, M
Even if there was no military, the US could afford universal health care. The current system is WAY more expensive and inefficient than 'for all' plans.
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
It’s not that we can’t do it. It’s that we don’t want to allocate that many resources (dollars) to doing it.
eMortal · M
It's not that we can't afford Medicare for all. It's just that a lot of us are against that idea.
Powderflask · 31-35, M
I don't have a good answer for that 1. We spend and give away money that does not benefit tax payers it's a complete shame. However I'm also firmly against Medicare for all or Medicare in general. Why do people want to fund government control?
MarineBob · 56-60, M
Just look at nancy do you really want to see her doctors
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@MarineBob Probably, yeah.
wisely spent over 19 years - thank you Mideast pigs !
Success · 26-30, F
Oh, my precious American firearms!
Human1000 · M
We’re idiots, okay?
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Human1000 · M
Not gonna do it.@Kingfish28
drdej19 · 70-79, M
@Human1000 Respect to you-it is that 1% super rich and why should it be free for lazy people...they don't care and don't have private health care...well I am one of those lazy people...I want something for nothing...well I am talking rubbish. Let me be frank here..I I have share in arm industry and... and I have a yacht 10-meter 5 crew... and I want a super yacht and cost is high? This is what I want..100-meter super yacht with a top speed of 25 knots and 50 crew members take models and... cost around $275 million. Considering the 30 largest super yachts are all longer than 100 meters, they can often cost significantly more so I want war and more war...sales up profit up...who cares about any kind of care for needy people.

 
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