With all the attention the outsize US military budget gets, I am baffled by how little attention it gets that it spends 5x that amount on non-public health care.
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At least, leaving aside the widespread money laundering in US armed forces, you can rationalize the former as a politically necessary expenditure to maintain hegemony.
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What really astounds about this number is how little we get for it. The institutionalized corruption in our military spending is nothing next to what happens in our healthcare.
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