You make some excellent points. I agree, we’ll likely see similar points raised any day now by one of our many legacy newsrooms now owned by US private equity /s

Cops don’t protect public safety, they protect capital.

I will also add that military is regularly exempt from cost-related scrutiny, while healthcare is an essential service for which costs are constantly scrutinized (by the same people seeking to privatize and profiteer off it, and screw over the rest of the province/country).