[nipplesurvey]

> How are these other nations providing all of the functions of government, including universal health care, for what Americans are paying just for insurance?

by america subsidizing their defense spending

[virmundi]

You're not wrong. I'm sure there are points to debate, but the US does provide a free military to the EU.

https://www.cato.org/blog/us-taxpayer-subsidies-european-wel...