The White House is seeking roughly $1.5 trillion for defense as part of a fiscal 2027 budget request — a proposal that would boost military spending to its highest point in modern history as the Trump administration wages its war with Iran.
By switching to a universal healthcare system, that cost could be much lower.
Healthcare costs in the US are bloated because of for-profit and privatized healthcare systems, as well as insurance middlemen taking huge cuts to keep billionaires’ bank accounts bloated.
By socializing healthcare, eliminating profit motives, private equity, and insurance CEOs, and allowing the government to negotiate prices, those costs could be brought down significantly.
No other country in the world pays rates nearly as high for healthcare as in the US. The US government would save money by making it universal. But that would hurt their billionaire oligarch donors’ bottom lines…
The US government already spends about $3T per year on healthcare. The issue has never been that there isn’t enough money for it.
By switching to a universal healthcare system, that cost could be much lower.
Healthcare costs in the US are bloated because of for-profit and privatized healthcare systems, as well as insurance middlemen taking huge cuts to keep billionaires’ bank accounts bloated.
By socializing healthcare, eliminating profit motives, private equity, and insurance CEOs, and allowing the government to negotiate prices, those costs could be brought down significantly.
No other country in the world pays rates nearly as high for healthcare as in the US. The US government would save money by making it universal. But that would hurt their billionaire oligarch donors’ bottom lines…