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No, friend.
The government should be giving everyone health care.
Look at Canada and Mexico. Combined they spends a little over $30 billion a year on their military. Both have universal health care. Here in the US we spend well over two trillion a year on war, and if you have an injury or illness, you will go bankrupt.
Doesn't matter what China does if you're out on the street, because SCOTUS just paved the way for homelessness to be criminalized.
None of this has anything to do with anything.
You could eliminate all foreign aid, all military aid, all foreign spending whatsoever and you still wouldn't have health care. While many Americans support it (some polls suggest a majority), they don't care enough about it to actually use the electoral system to get it. Meanwhile parasites in the health care system (insurance companies chief among them) make huge profits and will gladly use a bunch of that on campaigns to maintain the status quo. Americans already spend more per capita on health care than anyone else. They just get pitiful value for that money, and lack the will to change things.
I fully agree, we need to stop spending so much money on the military immediately. I was simply making reference to the fact that we are not spending several hundred million dollars on the military aid that we're sending, we're sending several hundred million dollars worth of military aid that we paid for before I was born.
People keep making that argument, that it's only older military ordnance being sent to these countries.
I think that's going to age about as well as the stories about Saddam having nukes, which everyone else claimed authoritatively at one point, using their preferred billionaire-owned news media source as gospel.
BUT, I appreciate that you're willing to have a discussion in good faith, unlike most on this thread. Thank you.
Single-payer healthcare is cheaper than the current system. No amount of spending in an unrelated area is preventing us from having cheaper universal healthcare.