I’ve wondered this for a long time. Are Germany, France, Great Britain, etc., only able to afford national healthcare because we subsidize their defense? <\/p>\n
A quick look at a few statistics gives a clear answer. No. <\/p>\n
Here’s per capita military spending by country.<\/a> <\/p>\n Israel, $2,402 Germany doesn’t even make the top 15, but if we take France as an example, we spend $1,246 more per capita on defense than they do. <\/p>\n Then what about healthcare? If the theory were true, you would expect France to spend about that much more in per capita health care than we do. But it doesn’t work that way. <\/p>\n See How U.S. Healthcare Spending Per Capita Compares With Other Countries<\/a> <\/p>\n United States, $10,586 (I’m assuming these numbers are valid, that they’re comparing apples to apples, etc.. It’s entirely possible they’re incorrect. Healthcare and defense stats seem to be data that people are willing to misrepresent.) <\/p>\n Given these numbers, we spend more on defense and<\/b> more on healthcare, which brings me to my second question. <\/p>\n Does the U.S. healthcare system, like the U.S. military, subsidize the rest of the world? IOW, we spend so much on defense that Germany doesn’t have to spend much at all. Is the same true with healthcare? Do we develop the drugs, procedures, equipment, expertise, etc. that the rest of the world relies on, allowing them to spend less? <\/p>\n I would love to hear an honest evaluation of that question. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve wondered this for a long time. Are Germany, France, Great Britain, etc., only able to afford national healthcare because we subsidize their defense? A quick look at a few statistics gives a clear answer. No. Here’s per capita military spending by country. Israel, $2,402 United States, $2,224 Singapore, $1,932 Saudi Arabia, $1,805 Kuwait, $1,738 … Continue reading “Does U.S. defense spending subsidize European national healthcare?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nUnited States, $2,224
\nSingapore, $1,932
\nSaudi Arabia, $1,805
\nKuwait, $1,738
\nOman, $1,389
\nNorway, $1,320
\nAustralia, $1,078
\nFrance, $978
\nBahrain, $891
\nSouth Korea, $842
\nBrunei, $799
\nUnited Kingdom, $751
\nDenmark, $735
\nLuxembourg, $710<\/p>\n
\nGermany, $5,986
\nSweden, $5,447
\nCanada, $4,974
\nFrance, $4,965
\nJapan, $4,766
\nU.K., $4,070
\nItaly, $3,428
\nSpain, $3,323
\nSouth Korea, $3,192
\nRussia, $1,514
\nBrazil, $1,282
\nTurkey, $1,227
\nSouth Africa, $1,072
\nIndia, $209<\/p>\n