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		lotsofpulp 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Daily Pill May Work as Well as Ozempic for Weight ... Military spend is only 13% of total federal spend. Healthcare is 26%. At a certain point, unquestionable military superiority provides more utility than keeping old people alive, and more like surviving instead of living from my grandparents’ experience with dialysis. Not that current US military spend is ideal, but neither is current healthcare spend on the healthcare and population it is spent on.

fao_ 4 months ago [–]

> Not that current US military spend is ideal, but neither is current healthcare spend on the healthcare and population it is spent on.

And single-payer healthcare and an overhaul of the insurance prices would help that a hell of a lot.

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