Reply #90: Health care should been seen as part of national defense [View All]

[Flaxbee]

All administrations since WWII have been so damn excited and ready to spend literally trillions on weaponry and ways to kill other people in order to "protect Americans and provide for the national defense". So, why isn't the government willing to protect its citizens against the spread of disease, lost productivity, etc.? THis country is going to end up full of ill and poorly educated people, "protected" by a battery of multi-million dollar weapons. Boy, glad we have our priorities straight. A sick population is much more detrimental to this country's national health than terrorism or some other boogeyman threat ever will be.

We actually don't live in a world of scarcity, we live in a world of manufactured scarcity. We shift our priorities, and no one would have to wait for a damned thing.

I have many friends who are Canadians but have lived/worked here for a few years, and they would not trade their system for ours in a million years. YOu might have to wait for plastic surgery or some elective procedures, but not for critical or otherwise necessary care.