But in Canada you may have to wait to see a doctor! Checkmate socialists!

I bring it up a lot but the book "dying of whiteness" was a horrifying look into this. A significant amount of people don't want national health care, even if it means they themselves get sick and die, because then those people would get it.

The money facts don't matter. It's just emotional sludge.

A good part of the reason public health expenditure is so much higher in the US is because public healthcare doesn't generally cover healthy people. Medicare exclusively covers seniors and disabled people for instance.

If we just expanded coverage to everyone, we'd probably be instantly on par with other public health systems on a cost-per-patient basis.

The White House recently posted that it would cost $35,500 per household per year to enact Medicare for All.

Obviously, that's total horseshit, but that's the attitude we are fighting.

The thing people don't realize is that we already have universal healthcare, but in a stupid, cruel way. A hospital will treat anybody, but they'll go into debt for the amount they "should" have paid, while everyone who does pay already pays for those who can't.

Also - If anyone reading this is uninsured and needs medical attention - get treatment and ignore the bills. Medical debt might as well be imaginary. It's essentially ignored by credit bureaus. Hospitals sell it off to debt collectors who will try to get you to pay, but just end up selling it off again and again until it goes away 99.99% of the time.

Don't ignore something potentially serious over financial concerns.

We know it, thanks for the figures though, I will write this down. I don't want to bother you for a source, but if I cite these figures elsewhere I would need one, and I will, cite these figures if I am able.

You forgot about the IHS (second only to the VA in size), honestly one of the best kept secrets in the US… if all the MAGAts knew their tax dollars were going to give Native Americans universal healthcare there would probably be riots on the streets.

For real though, between all those programs there are already like 40 million people on a universal type healthcare system, I’ve never understood why we can just extend it to everybody.

Buh then they won't want to work. 🤣

It should be able to, but it's important to remember it's less one single audit, and more a shit ton of smaller ones.

If Navy owes the Army 100k, that's 100k off on both sheets, for a 200k discrepancy even tho the money is just sitting with the wrong agency. And there's a bunch of those going both ways.

Keeping it straight costs money, you end up paying a bunch of people to move money around like Nvidia is doing with AI.

If you look at how the money moves between Nvidia and chatbot companies, you see everyone's gross revenue is high because they're selling shit to themselves.

If someone did one single audit of the DoD, where +100k cancels out -100k, I don't think it would be that far out of balance. And then we'd have to evaluate if paying people to resolve it is even worth it.

Like, long story but the government said I owed them money and eventually I paid, $0.01 more than they wanted. For over two years I got super fancy official trasuery checks a couple times a month.

That was a complete and total waste of our tax money, but the people I overpaid just cared about that penny on a balance sheet.

What we should do is just stop giving agencies money directly. Give them the equivalent of a line of credit, that the government pays. It sounds like it won't do anything if you're not familiar with the federal government.

But almost anything that gets done involves at least one agency paying another agency. With a line of credit the government just pays the difference at every reconciliation.

That's a shit ton easier to keep track of, because it's just large regularly scheduled transfers backed up with a giant statement of what each charge was to/from that agency.

If a company can't pass an audit, it gets bailed out

There's no color that the USA won't invade, and we have no problems with killing white kids. We were founded on killing white people and have bombed every color.

brown kids

USA are not racists in this regard. They are eager to pay Putin to kill Ukrainian kids (who are not brown) too!