Imagine if we cut 50% of the funding to the military and its associated parasites and spent the public money saved on providing health care to all Americans… Plenty of wasted public money in the violence industry. I’d rather my tax money be spent prolonging lives (even those of > 80 year olds) than murdering brown people abroad and abusing people in this country in the name of some “war on drugs.”
This being said, my grandmother was hit by a truck crossing the street in London at age 76 or so. She received very good care from the UK medical system and ended up living another 21 healthy years. “Socialized medicine lets old people die” is horseshit — if anything, private insurance has more motive to let more expensive patients go than a public service does.
