Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Derek
How are universal healthcare, free college etc. fictions? Nearly every other developed country has them! They are basic necessities that the majority of the Western world has and from a socialist point of view is literally the bare minimum for a fairer society. How much does the US spend on their overbloated military? And you're telling me the guy with cancer who makes $20k a year and needs $100k on gofundme can't get his life saving treatment paid for? What a mess. Macroeconomics means nothing to people suffering needlessly.
|
There was a study I saw a few months ago: almost half of US cancer patients deplete their entire life savings in less than two years of treatment.
Shameful, really. But of course, the US military (which is also our dying world's biggest polluter) takes precedent.