[chaostheory]

One of the big reasons we have no universal healthcare is because we socialized defense for other countries like your country. You guys are years if not decades away from being able to defense yourselves.

[smelendez]

That’s not really true, as an American.

We spend a ton on healthcare anyway, just inefficiently and in a way that causes stress and struggles for patients.

[ericd]

Yeah, the administrative overhead related to just the billing system is staggering. Many hospital systems have more billing professionals than they have beds.

[chaostheory]

We spend more overall because our healthcare is bifurcated. There would be waste regardless of whether or not we socialize our healthcare completely. Look at Medicare as an example

[realo]

Defend against who? You?

I am in Canada, and the USA recently threatened to invade us, basically.

So we need to buy weapons from the USA in order to defend ourselves from the USA?

Sounds like mafia protection schemes.

[chaostheory]

Sure, we are now a threat, but let’s not ignore Russia or China. Neither of them are breaking news and Russia is the immediate threat for most of the West, and until recently for you guys as well

[amrocha]

Do you think that if europe had tripled its defence spending over the last century the US would have spent more or less?

[chaostheory]

Less, which is implied by my first comment