sc94597 on 14 November 2013
| Somini said: Why do Americans hate taking care of each other so much? That poor guy is trying to bring a great service to the people and he gets demonized for it! "Obamacare" (Republicans are not the only ones using this name) :S |
Except Americans don't hate taking care of each other. We (well many of us) hate enslaving each other. Americans have the same amount of social expenditure as every other first world nation, it just so happens that half of our expenditure is private and voluntary while the other OECD countries are almost entirely forced to take care of each-other by their governments.
http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?datasetcode=SOCX_AGG
Choose "net total."
