• Sonori@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Friendly reminder that the us already spends more per capita on healthcare than any other nation.

    There is no amount of money that you can throw into this god forsaken system of insurance companies and for profit hospitals that will make it to the people themselves. A company will charge what people will pay, if you subsidize what they can pay, the company will raise prices until it returns to where it was and pocket the rest.

    It is not that the US healthcare system is underfunded, it is that for profit healthcare is incompatible with financial reality at it’s very core.

    Besides, the EU is the one loaning Ukrainian money, the US donations are in end of life military equipment, and as much as i think we should pay our doctors in anti tank missiles i don’t think congress is going to ok that solution anytime soon. After all, that might actually fix things in a decade or two.

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      1 year ago

      Healthcare is broken, agreed. But All the aid being sent to Ukraine will absolutely be reflected in the 2023-24 military budget, where it will be multiplied 2-3 fold. It’s not free, it’s not a “good value” it is absoltuely a waste of resources and it is only being spent to make the war-pigs at lockhead martin, and the other MIC richer.

      Make no mistake, if you support the US spending more money on Ukraine, you 100% support Imperialism.