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US Politics 16h
Guess how much free healthcare would cost the government? 4 TRILLION a year
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Anonymous 16h

You’re right, we should actually be spending that money on Israel instead

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Anonymous 15h

hey how much does our current healthcare system cost the average American annually in medical bills, hm?

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Anonymous 16h

I wonder how much healthcare companies are worth 🤔

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Anonymous 15h

America’s healthcare expenditure in 2025 was $5.7 trillion. Canada’s was $399 billion, which is still less than half of ours even when adjusted per capita. But yes let’s keep spending more than them while having a shorter life expectancy than them so that our politicians’ campaigns can remain funded by the healthcare industry.

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Anonymous 14h

We already pay 1.5-2X that much. Single-payer healthcare would save us trillions annually

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Anonymous 16h

thats honestly not alot considering how many ppl live here

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Anonymous 13h

Nothing is free. Healthcare is a service and a job industry. It should be significantly reduced in price tho, it’s gone way too far for way too long

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Anonymous 14h

This is how much Americans currently spend on healthcare. A single payer system would cost less because the single payer (the government) could negotiate lower prices.

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Anonymous 9h

We pay 5 trillion for it right now dipshit.

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Anonymous 9h

We spend more than that right now and most bankruptcies are from medical debt. Sounds like Medicare for all is a win on all sides for the working class.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 15h

Since they’ve been giving us healthcare for decades likely more than we spend in a singular year ?

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 15h

A lot but you can choose whether to spend that or not depending on your current health preferences

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 15h

“yeah healthcare is expensive but you can choose whether to get that cancer treatment or not” that’s what you sound like.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 15h

What the fuck do you think a healthcare company is

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 15h

yeah bro, as if i could “choose my health preferences” with a chronic illness lmfao 😂 i don’t get to choose to not go to the ER when i’m having heart attack symptoms. i’ve been choosing to not get my wisdom teeth out for 4 years now bc i don’t have dental insurance anymore & can’t afford the surgery. they’re probably extremely compacted now & my jaw aches all the time. i would prefer to choose to get them out but it’s going to cost so much money

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 15h

“Yeah but in america you can choose to just die” what

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 15h

GIVING?? girl you’ve never been denied by medical insurance in the middle of treatment or worse, a surgery? never had the insurance inexplicably deny your life-saving prescriptions you’ve been on for years? damn bro. you’re lucky.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 14h

$5.7T is federal + state level, federal level is $1.8T-$2.4T. I assume a universal system would be done at the federal level. Assuming we integrate current programs into a universal system and those programs’ numbers can translate into universal healthcare spending, we’d be left with about $1.6T to find. We could halve military spending (albeit with drastic consequences, not just worldwide but domestically), bringing it down to $1.15T. We would have to raise (1/)

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 14h

taxes, yet, not many people are ready for that so idk wtf we gonna do. Israeli spending can be cut yet that’s just $3.8B, that’s a drop in the bucket.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 14h

"depending on your current health preferences" 💀

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13h

“current health practices” wtf are you talking about? health emergencies can happen to literally anyone dude. obviously risk factors exist but that doesn’t mean you can’t get sick if you live a healthy lifestyle. it’s not as simple as waking up and saying “i’m just not going to get sick today”

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 13h

I’m not sure you understand. We have to spend $5.7 trillion as a direct result of how our healthcare model works. It includes sales in the private sector which are far higher when you don’t have a universal healthcare system. Which is why Canadians spend half what we do per capita on healthcare even after accounting for the spending that comes from taxpayer money.

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