Israel/Palestine
Related: About this forumIsrael has public universal health care
They don't have to spend $3.8 billion per year of their own money for the next decade thanks to us tax payers here in the USA.
Meanwhile, we're getting screwed on health care and getting worse soon.
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delisen
(6,466 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)coco22
(1,258 posts)post everywhere.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Participation in the government health care program is compulsory.
It has nothing to do with military aid or spending.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)So their single payer system costs their government nothing?
Money they don't have to spend because we give it to them does not affect their governmental programs?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)You can read about it here:
http://ldi.upenn.edu/news/overview-israels-universal-health-care-system
SHRED
(28,136 posts)...then they can finance their own military equipment purchases.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)https://www.state.gov/p/nea/rls/rm/261928.htm
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Why are we essentially giving them military equipment funded by you and me?
Why are we subsidizing their purchases?
They can't afford it?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)The total of all of the foreign aid that we give to every country we give aid to (Israel included) is minuscule relative to the total federal budget.
safeinOhio
(34,090 posts)abortion when the mothers HEALTH is in danger with taxpayers money too. Oh my.
Mosby
(17,474 posts)That's about 3 billion per year.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Normally, threads in the I/P group are supposed to be based on a link to a recent news story from a reputable news source. If you can find such a link and add it to your OP(while using the exact headline used in the original article), you can prevent that from happening.