• Professorozone
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    14 hours ago

    The highest estimated cost by the OBM for universal healthcare in the US is $290B.

    Just gonna leave that here.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      8 hours ago

      and it can be taken out of the overbloated defense budget too, and they still have more than enough for thier big guns and toys.

      • some_kind_of_guy
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        11 hours ago

        Yeah, it objectively has to be far, far less. Tax payers directly funding health providers would destroy a great amount of the demand for such a massive private health insurance industry, which is why we pay so much in the first place.