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I prefer to put this in a way that people can “appreciate.”
Going off the UK’s NHS cost per person covered number in 2022 of £2700 you could extrapolate… doodoodoo that it would cost approximately $1.2T to have full healthcare coverage guaranteed and available for every single American. Based on 2022 population of 338M people, approximately. And yes, I rounded up to 1.2T.
That’s pretty close to 10% of the way to covering a year of “American NHS” and all we got was a bunch of dead people, rich CEOs, and definitely not improved health for anyone. And 18 months of funding another war.
It’s probably also worth mentioning that doing a proper NHS here and in the process of course dissolving Medicare, Medicaid and the VA health department would end up with like 2x of the required $1.2T. Medicare alone approaches $1T yearly. The problem of course is capitalism incentivizing graft and scams of all types jacking that number up.
Anyway, just interesting to see what we apparently ACTUALLY care about. It isn’t the lives of people here or in Ukraine (or anywhere). It’s just about enriching capitalists and politicians who are along for the scam. Also interesting to see how cheap it would be to fix things if “done properly.” I’m not one to overly focus on dollar amounts, it’s all bullshit obviously, but liberals (including conservatives) do care about the made up number go up. If they really wanted made up number to to down it’s pretty easy. Stop funding wars and (at a minimum) abolish privatized health insurance/healthcare. Move to an NHS-style socialized system.
I mostly wrote this for myself just to put things into perspective since the numbers can get lost and muddied due to rhetoric from liberals filled with lies. “We can’t afford it!” Well, you have no problem affording twice the amount in a wasteful current system… plus an additional $100M on top to bomb people across the world. We can afford anything, but they aren’t interested in making material conditions better for anyone. Only worse. No healthcare here, and bombs for over there. We can’t afford life here, but we can afford death everywhere else.
This country is a joke.