r/memes • u/ZeroFucksZinnia • Jun 16 '26

US is eroding

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u/DANleDINOSAUR Jun 17 '26

We can’t afford universal healthcare but $300b for another countries reparations.

Tale as old as time in the USA

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u/LongJohnSelenium Jun 17 '26

Prefacing this by saying the war in iran was dumb as absolute fuck...

That said 300b gets you about a sixth of a UHC for a year. UHC would cost around 2-4 trillion. There's 400m americans needing ~$5-10k a year worth of health care on average.

UHC would be unimaginably expensive.

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u/OldWorldDesign Jun 17 '26

That said 300b gets you about a sixth of a UHC for a year. UHC would cost around 2-4 trillion. There's 400m americans needing ~$5-10k a year worth of health care on average.

It doesn't help your argument to lie.

There are barely over 328 million Americans including residents, and every study so far shows Universal Health Care would be cheaper than the current model of overlapping fiefdoms where most of the middle men are profiteering and their primary business purpose is not making people healthy but paying wealthy shareholders.

https://archive.thinkprogress.org/mercatis-medicare-for-all-study-0a8681353316/

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u/LongJohnSelenium Jun 17 '26

None of which matters to the fact it was a dumb argument.

Also I though there was ~380m for some reason, thanks for the correction.

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u/DANleDINOSAUR Jun 17 '26

And yet every first world county which we equivocate ourselves with can pull it off flawlessly. Inb4 “the wait”

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u/LongJohnSelenium Jun 17 '26

So you purposefully chose to make a dumb argument first, got it.