“Medicare for All” would save the U.S $5.1 Trillion over 10 years

[u/The-Lucky-Investor]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/30/easy-pay-something-costs-less-new-study-shows-medicare-all-would-save-us-51-trillion

[u/Ice_Swallow4u]

Other countries most likely, not that they haven’t tried. Would you rather China be King?

[u/abrandis → u/Ice_Swallow4u]

Of course not , China , Russia, India are.much worse than the US , but maybe we should try and pattern our society off of Nordic countries or even France ,with more progressive.social programs.... The funny thing is you could still ah e a lot of fabulously wealthy folks , with a more equitable society...

[u/AyeYoTek → u/abrandis]

maybe we should try and pattern our society off of Nordic countries or even France ,with more progressive.social programs....

We're the ones who allow them to do this. When you don't have to spend money on your military because you know the US is an ally and you're part of NATO, you have money for these things. The current war in Ukraine is a prime example. Europe can't even defend its own backyard without us.

[u/abrandis → u/AyeYoTek]

Bullshit, it has nothing to do with that... We spend more on the military like 7x the next largest militaries.... It's just where we decide to spend the money, any country that has nukes already has a big stick..... We were spending obscene amounts before Ukraine war....

[u/myaltduh → u/AyeYoTek]

This is a myth based on bad math. The US spends a bit less than 3% of its GDP in the military. Denmark spends about 1.4%. That’s less, but there’s basically no way them raising military spending to a bit over 2% breaks the back of their large social safety net, particularly because they actually spend far less per capita on healthcare than the US because their whole system isn’t stuffed to the brim with profit-seeking middlemen.

[u/Ice_Swallow4u → u/abrandis]

You never even considered it until I brought it up.