Reply #52: Apples and oranges. [View All]

[txaslftist]

You are talking about the total cost of healthcare we pay as a nation (of which the majority is private sector costs) versus what they pay as governments for their versions of universal health care.

The difference is that their governments are, by and large, not broke and in debt. Our government is. We can't afford our current obligations, much less any new ones.

I'm not against universal healthcare, but it is something we need to put behind ending the war and putting our fiscal house in order.