With a national healthcare payor negotiating the cost of care you could pay for a hell of a lot more than just all the chemotherapy.
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GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’ve posted this a few times but it fits here:
This country spent $8 Trillion on two wars over 20 years! That’s $400 billion each year.
This country could have paid for all the chemotherapy 80 times over
OR we could have paid for rebuilding/fixing this countries infrastructure for a 1/3 of that cost.
OR America could have built out a National high speed rail
Or many many other things.
instead we killed thousands of people and got what in return???
roofuskit@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
My only issue is that your estimate of the number of people killed is missing 3 zeroes. It’s more like millions.
orrk@lemmy.world 6 months ago
still quite a bit away from “millions” the HIGHEST (by a significant margin) for Iraq is 1.033 million, and that is total excess death, not casualties and for Afghanistan it barely reaches 200,000 in 20 years
so no, Hundreds of thousands is correct, Millions is Soviet territory
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
More than a million is “millions”. And if we’re talking about total historical deaths attributable then the US has the USSR beat by a lot. Neoliberal capitalism is just as bloodthirsty as state capitalism, except the US had more time and power to kill people.
greenmarty@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I don’t think you anyone can beat Russia’s and all of it’s forms death toll in 20th+21th century.
lilsolar@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Hey now, for a beautiful moment we created value for the rayethon shareholder. And thays all thay matters