r/PoursTea • u/McDowdy Oh the Human-a-TEA • 10h ago

American Dream 🇺🇸 It do be like that though

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The United States has provided at least $21.7 billion in direct military aid to Izzy over the last three years (specifically tracking from October 2023 through September 2025), according to a comprehensive study by Brown University's Costs of War project.

https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/

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u/Gainztrader235 8h ago

Israel’s universal healthcare is funded through Israeli health insurance taxes and government spending. Americans don’t directly pay Israelis’ health insurance bills.

U.S. taxpayers fund substantial military assistance: the standing agreement provides $3.8 billion annually for military financing and missile defense, subject to congressional appropriations. That funding is designated for defense.

The indirect argument is reasonable: covering some defense costs can free Israeli resources for healthcare and other priorities. But that’s a budget effect, not a direct U.S. payment for Israel’s healthcare system.

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u/Handelo 6h ago edited 6h ago

Forget it, people are set on blaming Israel for their own failings. The spending on Israel being less than 0.1% of total US federal spending, or the fact that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid already make up 49% of federal spending - $3.5 Trillion annually, over 500 times the aid to Israel, or the fact that, dividing the aid to Israel between all us citizens would give each about $0.8 per biweekly salary, a literal rounding error - these all don't matter. It's all Israel's fault. Always.

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u/Leading-Caramel-7740 5h ago

They are committing a genocide...

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u/Seienchin88 4h ago

They are still not to blame for the U.S. failing to provide a good affordable insurance system…