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Old 11-06-2019, 06:32 PM
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Even a small amount of intellectual curiosity and doing a modicum of research, will show many of the same arguments against universal or single-payer health care...as there was against establishing Social Security (and later medicare).

So how many of you want to see SS/medicare...go away now?

Although I doubt I will ever see it, I hope that my children/grandchildren/great-grandchildren's healthcare will eventually become a priority for our country...and a workable system will eventually be established.

I'm pretty sure that no one will ever catch up to us in military spending (since we outspend the NEXT 7 COUNTRIES COMBINED)... so why shouldn't some of that money go toward the health benefit of our fellow American citizens (especially our neglected veterans)?


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$121.1 billion.

That’s how much more money the United States spends on its military than 144 other countries combined, according to the latest update to available data on military expenditures compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

That’s not to mention the number by which the United States also outspends the next 7 largest military budgets combined: $40.1 billion.