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outlawauron said:

NATO defense spending is measured as a percentage of GDP. It's supposed to be 2% and nearly all of the NATO countries fall incredibly short of that. The US will never not be far out ahead in pure numbers unless the US economy collapses. Shutting down defense spending is synonymous with closing down bases and retracting the size of the military by recalling the hundreds of thousands of soldiers stationed abroad.

As far as paying the same for worse care, there isn't really any service that has been taken over by the government and had a positive impact in final product. The quality of service or product always gets worse. I have no reason to believe that the service would improve or even stay the same. The price of drugs or cost of the service doesn't impact the quality of the service. Hence the, pay the same for worse service.

As far as the WHO, they rank (appropriately) the overall mean of healthcare available in the US. The quality of care varies so much from city to city, not even to mention the jumps that can take place from state to state. The very best hospitals in the world are in the US, but that is a byproduct of the higher costs. The level of care that a very poor person receives (although free or nearly through Medicaid) is not near the level of care that someone who can afford the best receives.

At least in my country there are numerous examples of services and products that have dropped in quality after they have been privatised. If a company wants to make profit from health care, it might not have much motives to cure people in the long run, while a goverment might/should have the motive to take as good care as they can to minimize expenses (if its free/almost free for the citizens). If the motive is to make people healthy (to save money) instead of making money from the sickness, then the service can also be better. Of course anything can be done well or like shit. Personally I view health care, education, police, fire department and such, as things that should be at least mostly handled by the goverment/state etc