>>1528941The US's tax-funded healthcare costs go to supplement other nations' healthcare, for such things as price fixing on exported medication and equipment, research and development done here but taken for granted elsewhere.
>muh freedomHere's the thing on that: Taxation is theft. While the above is true, none of it should be associated with taking people's money to fund it by force. If an American company develops some drug, and they charge what it takes to recoup costs of development, that's fine by me. If Bongistan government wants to purchase that drug to distribute it to Bongistonians, then Bongistan should be expected to pay the asking price, or find a more cost-effective alternative.
Also, bragging about the UK having the best healthcare is bullshit, when it's demonstrable that they'd prefer to let children die because their care is expensive, rather than let their parents take the kid to another country and pay for it out of pocket. In a more market-based medical system, the parents can do whatever the fuck they want to do, to save their child's life. Your government thinks it owns you, and when your cost to benefit ratio is off, it will let you die. So you get to live smugly in your little shithole as a government slave. I get free speech (as long as it has remaining here, considering the attitudes of our current and previous three Presidents), and I get to keep and bear arms as a standing threat against tyranny.
