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Originally Posted by Catfish
Which brings me to the question why the US ... invests 740,5 billion dollars this year into "defense" (ahem) while not being able to put up a working healthcare scheme?
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That one is actually easy to answer since a lot of economists have looked into the issue over the years.
The U.S. could afford a nationwide publicly funded healthcare, BUT they would have to severely cut back on defence spending to do it.
The reason why other countries, like Germany, have been able to afford generous social programs is because they were "freeloading", cheaping out on their defence spending since they knew they could rely on the U.S. defence umbrella.