[mschuster91]

> This money was available to blow stuff up, kill kids in another country. Why not spending something similar to improve the US domestically.

Because there is already more than enough money in the US healthcare system. Just shoving in more money will not help anybody at all.

[oliwarner]

I think we're possibly saying the same thing in different ways but the only way you take the money going to insurance companies and debt collectors is by providing a service that doesn't rely on them.

Getting there is the hurdle. Forcibly nationalise insurers and their hospital networks? Price capping all the things? Doesn't sound very American.

That leaves competition. To fund that, you need tax revenue. Eventually people will pay that tax instead of insurance but it's infrastructure, so it's front-loaded.