Every dime we spend on warfare is one less dime for healthcare. NT

[grahamhgreen]

[Thinkingabout]

1. Yes and we have the F-35 project taking up more than a trillion dollars to date, still has

not produced a functioning version.

[valerief]

2. Duh. War is a racket, and in America, it's THE racket.

We work most of the year to keep arms manufacturers and other war profiteers rich.

[SheilaT]

3. I keep on thinking,

every time people scream about how expensive universal health care (even at a fairly basic level) would be, I want to ask them just how expensive they think our military is?

It breaks my heart to realize that so many people in this country, at all levels, are willing, even eager, to build another fighter, bomb another village, give another billion to some unethical contractor, while not thinking it's right that everyone should have access to good health care. It's why we are, sadly, not the greatest country on earth, just the militarily most powerful. For the time being.

[eomer]

4. Yes, also all the trillions of dollars sucked out of the system by the exorbitantly wealthy.

Like our other problems, this one is caused by the fucked up politics of this country. The claim that we can't afford it is a lie.

[Snarkoleptic]

5. Ike wrapped it up nicely here...

[grahamhgreen]

14. Ike said it best. Just as true now. Can you imagine how awesome our country would be if we'd spent

The last 50 years waging peace instead of war!

[HereSince1628]

6. Yup.

The US needs more than that 'peace dividend' that never materialized

[Human101948]

7. We already spend way to much on healthcare...

This entire argument about paying for healthcare is based on the idea that U.S. costs are necessarily sky high to provide good care. They are not!

The United States health care system is the most expensive in the world, but this report and prior editions consistently show the U.S. underperforms relative to other countries on most dimensions of performance. Among the 11 nations studied in this report—Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States—the U.S. ranks last, as it did in the 2010, 2007, 2006, and 2004 editions of Mirror, Mirror. Most troubling, the U.S. fails to achieve better health outcomes than the other countries, and as shown in the earlier editions, the U.S. is last or near last on dimensions of access, efficiency, and equity.

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2014/jun/mirror-mirror

Even Cuba with a very, very poorly funded system does better!

Figures from the World Health Organization clearly show that The United States lags behind 36 other countries in overall health system performance ranging from infant mortality, to adult mortality, to life expectancy.

20 countries in Europe and four countries in Asia have a better life expectancy than the U.S. If you are a male between the ages of 15 and 59, your chances of dying are higher in the U.S. (140 per thousand) than in Canada, 95, Costa Rica 127, Chile 134, and Cuba, 138.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/blake-fleetwood/cuba-has-better-medical-c_b_19664.html

It is not about money, it's about capitalists sucking the blood out of the populace like the slimey leeches they are.

[smirkymonkey]

8. That needs to change. That is why we need Bernie.

I think we have had enough with the defense department sucking up our tax dollars for nothing.

[Octafish]

9. ''Money trumps peace.'' -- appointed pretzeldent George W Bush, Feb. 14, 2007

"Commercial interests are very powerful interests," said George W Bush on Feb. 14, 2007 White House press conference in which he added, "Let me put it this way, ah, sometimes, ah, money trumps peace." And then he giggled and not a single member of the callow, cowed and corrupt press corpse saw fit to ask a follow-up.

Gold Star mom Cindy Sheehan tried to bring it to our nation's attention back in 2007. I don't recall even one reporter from the national corporate owned news seeing it fit to comment. Certainly not many have commented on how three generations of Bush men -- Senator Prescott Sheldon Bush, President George Herbert Walker Bush and pretzeldent George Walker Bush all had their eyes on Iraq's oil at least since the Eisenhower administration.

[killbotfactory]

10. Our oligarch warlords make a lot of money off healthcare. War, too. Why would they change that? nt

[litlbilly]

11. they wouldnt, so, we have to change it for them.

[KG]

12. it's a bi-partisan effort...

[Ferd Berfel]

13. As Grayson said on HArtmanns show Friday

Dropping million dollar bombs on $10 tents doesn't make sense