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by normalaccess 389 days ago
They have it because they don't spend on defense like the USA does. The US taxpayer is the world's golden goose and by means of things like NATO are subsidizing the European socialist healthcare systems.

If the USA cut it's funding in these lines Europe would be back to square one in a very shot time.
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Lalo-ATX 389 days ago
> They have it because they don't spend on defense like the USA does.

That doesn't feel right to me.

In the most recent year with data, as a percentage of gdp:

party healthcare military

eu 10.95% 1.56%

usa 17.36% 3.45%

stark difference, but "the only reason eu has socialized healthcare is because of their low military spending" just doesn't reconcile in my mind to the above numbers

[source data](https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/euu/eur...)

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Buttons840 389 days ago
The US pays more per person for healthcare than any other nation. This would be true if we doubled defense spending, or if we cut defense spending to zero.
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ryandrake 389 days ago
This just seems like the USA's poor spending choices. We could easily have a similar healthcare system as the rest of the developed world, if we chose not to buy all those bombers and aircraft carriers.
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piva00 389 days ago
I don't know the source of this rhetoric but you should look into the data instead of spewing this garbage. Another comment already put up the percentage expenditure on healthcare between what you consider "socialist" healthcare system, and the USA's corrupt system. You pay more for a lower quality service, the socialised (not socialist) system is less onerous to societies than the middlemen-riddled system of the USA, you get more bureaucracy, less coverage, while paying through the nose for a service you don't even know you will get provided.

It's simply a stupid system, it doesn't work, in a functioning society it would be accepted as a massive issue and reworked. Instead you have your democratic system captured by corporations who need this system to be perpetuated, you are right about the US taxpayer being the golden goose but not for the world, it's the golden goose for whole industries operating inside the USA to work on extracting maximum value from its population.

It's not the rest of the world milking you, it's your own corporations milking you dry.

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solumunus 389 days ago
Pure cope.
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