Why do Americans spend billions on various wars but can't ensure access to a free universal health care system and...

We already have virtually free and universal healthcare because of Medicare and Medicaid, plus one of the largest issues that makes our healthcare expensive has been the government more or less allowing for a state mandated health insurance oligopoly that allows itself to charge whatever the hell it wants. Our health insurance used to be both privatized, modern, and inexpensive due to having a much more diversified field before government subsidies essentially forced a trend of private but national centralization of capital.

If the US government were to nationalize and universalize our healthcare even further and try to pay for all of our terrible public health crisis via taxes it wouldn't make our healthcare any more quality, efficient, or inexpensive. It would vastly worsen the problem in multiple fields. Such reform is too simplistic to actually address the underlying causes of our decline.

False dichotomy and utterly retarded. America spends about 3% of its GDP on its military and about half on social services.

>Don't they care about their fellow compatriots?
Forcing people to pay for the upkeep of others under the threat of violence is not "care". Charity is.

Your post is utterly retarded. Over half of our government spending goes to military. That's what we can change. What significance is it to make that a percent of the GDP?

>No free or universal healthcare

We do have public hospitals though which are much worse than private ones but are almost completely free.

Also all Jordanians are covered for cancer treatments by default iirc (and if the insurance guys don't get their way)

>Over half of our government spending goes to military.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures

I wasn't aware that 3.2% = 50%. I knew I shouldn't have skipped Rick and Morty, because this shit is way too big brain IQ for me.

Hell, even if you exclusively look at Federal Spending (as opposed to total spending), that's still "only" 16% of its expenditure. Far less than either Health or Social Security (let alone both combined).

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Do a quick google search dipshit. Do you know the difference between GDP and government spending?

We spend almost as much on military as the rest of the world combined. And a good portion of the rest of the world (by military spending) are our close allies. Does that make sense to you?

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>federal discretionary spending
>as opposed to total federal spending
>or even total spending full stop
Yeah, it's over half of spending... if you very creatively interpret spending.

Says the guy who started with 3.2% in an attempt to make it look like we aren't spending that much. Are you honestly trying to tell me the US doesn't spend too much on military?

1. I didn't "start" with 3.2%, that's how much of your GDP is spent. That's how it compares to other countries, especially considering most of the biggest military spenders aren't federations.
2. I MYSELF brought up federal spending to effectively mow the grass away from your feet. Even when looking at federal spending, it's not that bad.
3. You don't even know what discretionary federal spending is, do you?

>Are you honestly trying to tell me the US doesn't spend too much on military?
At 3.2% of its total GDP? That's only 1.2% above the minimum limit NATO holds its members to. It's far from "too much" for effectively the only NATO power pulling its weight. Perhaps it could be reduced to 2% IF and only IF the other NATO powers pick up the slack.

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America should go back to being isolationists

This

They could have universal healthcare no problem because the government spends more on healthcare per person than basically every country with universal healthcare

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I believe that is one of the things drump promised

They already have universal healthcare. What do you think Medicare and Medicaid are?

when was that?

retard

Still they have best university education.

Pretty much never. But there was a time where we mostly kept our bullshit localized on the continent and didn't expand beyond it unless people fucked with us.

Stuff irrationally anti-american people don't know about because they're just as retarded as the insurancelet rednecks they're laughing at

after ww1.

Reduction in military spending won't pay for a health care system, and the majority of the country doesn't want to increase taxes to pay for it.

Been alive longer than you. My family has been here longer than yours. You're not white, and never will be.

Tertiary education isn't neccessary, there's no reason for it to be free. The reason people are in debt is because they made the irresponsible decision to go to a four year college when they couldn't afford it, instead of the much cheaper alternatives of an associates degree at a community college or an apprenticeship.
I made the decision to go to a four year college knowing my dad was going to pay for it, so the decision was financially responsible.

Before World War 1.
We were isolationists in the sense that we only got involved in wars in the Americas and stayed out of the Old World, which is the way it should be.

Redpilled and Based, except the part where you stopped the French from destroying G*rmany and saving Europe and the world a lot of grief. But other than that Redpilled and Based.

Fuck the French.
We could have an independent South but France decided that putting a Habsburg on the Mexican throne was more important

>Southrons rise up!
>We live in a society!

america is a paradise for sharks (we have the best upper end healthcare in the world, in almost every field), buts its terrible for sheep (no income= not that good of healthcare)

we do care about fellow compatriots, thats why charity often fills in the gaps

>>Forcing people to pay for the upkeep of others under the threat of violence is not "care". Charity is.
this tbqh, medicaid does cover most in low income or no income bracket, its just a pain in the dick to change coverage between jobs

>>I wasn't aware that 3.2% = 50%. I knew I shouldn't have skipped Rick and Morty, because this shit is way too big brain IQ for me
Based Dutchbro, lol'd out loud reading this

best (or best with variety) quality overall of healthcare and treatments too, if money is a non-issue (assuming you have essentially infinite moneys to spend on treatment)

USA was domestically still isolationists after WWII, and all thhe way until the attack on Pearl Harbor in WWII
its the executive branch (POTUS) that pushed for interventionist policies before the legislature did. its why, for example, our president created the league of nations after WWI, but our country never joined, since congress (senate, but especially the house) opposed it

FDR used the league of nation's failure to stop WWII, along with US's refusing to join the league being seen as the (perceived) reason that WWII happened, to coax congress to join the UN when WWII (was almost) ended

France couldnt have helped CSA enough for them to survive the civil war, even if they didnt play around in mexico

why are southerners so butthurt?

t. descendant of Lincon's assassins, who lives in the north

south was shit, and both the north and the south would have been far worse off, in the short term and the long term, if the civil war ended with anything less than the preservation of the union

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>free

>Don't they care about their fellow compatriots?
No