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Originally Posted by LesMTS  What do they spend it on? |
Nobody knows. Seriously. It's a total fucking mystery how the US manages to spend so much money on health care and gets so little. Though shit like "restless leg syndrome" and "companion monkeys" goes some way to explaining it. It's amazing that a country where you can get operated on by lasers over the fucking Internet also has people dying of malnutrition.
Oh, and, aye, for the record, I do think that the US military response and security response to 9/11 was stupid and wasteful, but I don't think the suggestion that there aren't as many people motivated to deal with road traffic accidents and cancer is, well, correct. What I do think is that the efforts have been about as effective. I mean, after we won the War on Drugs, and all.
Most cool stuff comes out of war. Trauma medicine for a start. Though, the US being the US, for ages the people best at dealing with gunshot wounds worked in ERs rather than the Army, and the speed of the evacuation chain is such now that there are superbugs killing US servicemen in hospitals stateside that have been spread by helicopter borne pathogens. I mean, yes, war is undeniably hell, but see preparation for war? Those are
wonderful toys.
I still hate American Pie though.
