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Adventurous_Risk_925 t1_j090frk wrote

Reply to comment by GhettoChemist in Feds file lawsuit against Arizona over border wall made of shipping containers by AudibleNod

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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