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@[email protected] Who are you quoting here I thought the link was broken or something
It’s a common chud line, they claim that because of Americas ridiculous and absurd military budget everyone else is “made safe” and can spend the money that would otherwise go to “defense” on social spending.
Another common refrain is trading costs would be higher without the naval spending because “we prevent piracy” lmao. We can’t even stop attacks on specific ships in a small area, I’ve heard less of that second line since the blockade started at least.
With healthcare, it is usually more along the lines that our drug and healthcare prices are high because they need to be high to recoup research and development costs. The other countries get drugs cheaper because their regulations and price controls means that they aren't paying R&D costs and are just having prices high enough above per unit production costs to still be worth selling the drugs in that country versus not. So the US prices get even higher since only in the US markets could they sell the drugs for enough money to offset these high upfront costs of actually developing the drugs or techniques.
It is bullshit, and even if it were true, there would be better, more sane ways of doing the development than for profit. But that is usually the argument about how the US drastically outspends more per capita than any other nation on healthcare.
That’s a parallel argument they also use, generally speaking they believe both and pull out whichever they feel is more relevant to dunk being made on them.