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GhettoChemist t1_j08p0s1 wrote

This is what republican governors do with state money. This is the reason schools suck and wr cant have subsidized healthcare.

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SacrificialPwn t1_j08sjj3 wrote

I won't be surprised that they obtained the containers from a donor for 10x the market price. That's what Florida does with all their hair-brained schemes

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Nickhead420 t1_j0961gh wrote

IIRC, they were paying the Florida contractor like 6X the estimated cost to built it.

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Maximum-Mixture6158 t1_j09eaz3 wrote

What works in my neighborhood is putting a big "free, one per each, please" they'll be gone by nightfall.

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Its_Nitsua t1_j09j910 wrote

We spend more per citizen on healthcare than any other country, the price gouging medical industry & medical insurance industry is to blame.

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red_Quasar t1_j0bymck wrote

The only echo chamber here is the one permanently existing between your ears and posterior to your eye balls.

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LostMyKarmaElSegundo t1_j09fi7q wrote

There is actually a cool bar with restaurants in Tucson called The Boxyard that is made of a bunch of shipping containers. Much better use of those resources if you ask me!

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AnBearna t1_j0b7p2o wrote

I was in a place in LA a few years ago that had made an indoor/outdoor video arcade out of them. Also had a bar in it, naturally! 🍺🕹️

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wonkagloop t1_j0balv5 wrote

Wasn’t there a bipartisan bill expanding public school funding passed earlier this past summer? Kinda a generalized statement there.

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ragingRobot t1_j0jhsg8 wrote

Imagine if their political stunt was to use that money and give all the teachers in the state raises. That would make me vote for them. But instead we get this.

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Adventurous_Risk_925 t1_j090frk wrote

20% of American GDP is spent on healthcare — BY FAR the largest amount in the world. Only Norway, Iceland, Luxembourg and Austria spend more money on primary and secondary education.

This clearly isn’t the reason your healthcare and education systems suck. Stop lying.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd/education-expenditures-by-country

Edit: Keep downvoting these facts, boys! Only on Reddit!

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party_benson t1_j094i7x wrote

State money is not GDP. Taxes being spent are not GDP. Your fact shows that we privately spend this money AND are charged more for the privilege of not having single payer.

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Oceansize757 t1_j09drxf wrote

You’re getting downvoted cuz you facts have absolutely nothing to do with what is being talked about. Could you be any more clueless smh

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Ceslen t1_j0920hi wrote

As a US citizen 0% of my healthcare is subsidized by the US government. Convince me I’m wrong.

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AttackOficcr t1_j0ao7bj wrote

If you qualify for any portion of Medicare or medicaid then some component of it is subsidized by the U.S. Government.

And many treatment studies are subsidized, you just don't pocket the benefit. The healthcare industry is the one banking on those studies and scamming the populace.

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Ceslen t1_j0bjj9d wrote

I’m a single person Union company. I pay both the company portion and employee portion of my insurance. Not old enough for Medicare, not injured enough for Medicaid, but the company does pay into them. Hopefully I’ll live long enough to take advantage of that and there will still be something left to take advantage of.

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AttackOficcr t1_j0cgdvu wrote

That's fair. My point was just that the U.S. government does spend a sizeable amount on healthcare, drug development, and licensing/testing.

Problem is that U.S. healthcare patients get and see none of those subsidies in their bloated medical blls. Like $25 for a single tab of aspirin.

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1Harryface t1_j0bi5e7 wrote

These folks don’t like the “tell it how it is” kinda guy.

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