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by jokethrowaway 899 days ago
Sure, let's assume 100B

What's the value provided to citizens by spending 67B on health in the USA in terms of value provided? 10B in a country where prices are not the result of insurance companies colluding with the government?

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I'm replying to this:

> Government money is a direct pipe to transnational corporations and the billionaires that run it. Welfare payments are peanuts compared to it.

I don't see the point in hypotheticals. You're restating the politics you've absorbed over years of consuming a certain slant of media. There's no point in that, and no point in me doing the same.