3) It is impossible for our government to provide universal healthcare without bankrupting the country
Just about every industrialized democracy has government run healthcare. What they don’t have is forty percent of their annual budget going to feed the defense industry, to make weapons to hold phantom monsters at bay. Half of what we spend on defense would get full medical coverage for everyone in the country. Any journalist that even hints at this will quickly find himself covering town council meetings in Adak, Alaska, however, because the defense industry has had a field day since Reagan (see 1) buying up media outlets. General Electric owns NBC, so don’t expect any hard-hitting defense industry exposes on Dateline.
But that’s where our health care money is going. And that’s why we don’t hear about it. Instead we hear about how unaffordable health care is. Meanwhile, cruise missiles go for about $575,000 apiece, and sometimes don’t even hit the country they’re aimed at. One of the missiles fired at bin Laden’s training camp in 2000 inexplicably veered off into Pakistan. That’s money well spent.
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