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Originally Posted by geofitz13
When comparing health care systems of various countries, we need to look at what seems, at first, to be unrelated spending. That is, defense spending. Look at the tax rates in the countries that have been cited: Canada, Netherlands, Sweeden. Virtually no military spending, so their near-confiscatory tax rates can support universal health care. If the US were to eliminate military spending, or drastically cut such spending, and then adopt the same near-confiscatory tax rates, we could afford universal health care. I'm not at all convinced that going that route would be advisable. I can't imagine any other country coming to our defense.
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We have nuclear weapons, however, which do seem to put in question the need of the development of pre-WWI kind of navies, air forces and armies. This is no longer 1944 as we had the events of 1945 that should have changed drastically how we look at the military. It does though really highlight the need for human intelligence on the ground with respect to others' capabilities related to nuclear weapons. The cold war and all that.