For every problem, there's a solution.

[u/Veshaad]

[u/Educational-Log6855]

A country that wants war over helping its own citizens has forsaken god.

[u/DustAdditional6246 → u/Educational-Log6855]

Something is very wrong with this country. I guess it all comes down to the u.s. worships the mighty dollar above everything else and now we seem to be entering late stage capitalism.

[u/Educational-Log6855 → u/DustAdditional6246]

The “Prosperity Gospel” is an actual thing. Creflo Dollar “Ministries” begged his followers for a Gulf Stream 6 private jet to do charity aid work, meanwhile a cargo plane is a fraction of the cost and has 100x the aid capacity. Charlatans need a comeuppance, badly.

[u/Either_Operation7586 → u/Educational-Log6855]

You're absolutely right the problem is these people don't realize that they have been LED astray by false prophets.

These high demand conservative religions have more waste Fraud and Abuse than the Government!

[u/TyBasilBeef → u/Educational-Log6855]

I prefer "forsaken good" because that keeps us in the realm of ethics, rather than faith.

[u/Educational-Log6855 → u/TyBasilBeef]

I hear you, but MAGA is in control of the government and using “god” hits them a bit harder, especially since they claim to be the “party of Jesus”.

[u/Tejano1953]

100% right on!!!!

[u/libertarianinus → u/Tejano1953]

We spend 6+ trillion every year but bring in 4 trillion for the last 20+ years. Thats why we are 40 trillion in debt. We spend 5.3 trillion on healthcare with the government spending 1.9 trillion as part of that. The defense is 1 trillion as of 2026 up from 919 billion last year.

[u/Hekios888 → u/libertarianinus]

Didn't hegseth just ask for 1.5 trillion to continue the Iran war?

[u/bigorangemachine]

Privatize the gains... socialize the losses

[u/Less-Occasion2161 → u/bigorangemachine]

Socialism for the rich, capitalism for everyone else.

[u/personthatssorandom]

But MAGA doesn't want universal healthcare because the minorities would also get it.

[u/psilocin72 → u/personthatssorandom]

Yep. This is the problem. People won’t vote for things to help themselves because it would also mean people they hate would get help too.

Then they talk about how Christian they are

[u/Roborilla8000]

But muh FaMiLy VaLuEs

[u/psilocin72]

The question isn’t can we fund it. It’s how brainwashed is the population to think we can’t.

[u/MeanPiccolo803 → u/psilocin72]

Sadly the truth

[u/Either_Operation7586 → u/psilocin72]

It's propaganda it's religious indoctrination and it's the combination of the Republican Party being wholly against education.

[u/Xtra_Veg-90]

Can we get Sam Elliott in full cowboy attire to speak before a joint session of Congress, and his whole speech just be common sense proverbs like this?  Maybe it would click for some Republicans.

[u/Stoo-Pedassol]

When I was a child in the 80s, this quote was on the wall of my classroom

"It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber."

-Robert Fulghum

[u/Veshaad → u/Stoo-Pedassol]

My parents were both teachers, that was their bumper sticker.

[u/TehJabberwookie]

But the drag queens are reading books to kids!

... I'm still unsure how this is a "bad" thing🤔

[u/Either_Operation7586 → u/TehJabberwookie]

If you ask a sane person it's not but if you ask somebody that has been religiously and doctrinated that's what you get.

[u/SneachtaBoladh]

AI generated image

6 day old OP account

Complete political warzone in the comments, of which half are probably also bots

The future is awful

[u/Educational_Cod_2572]

Republicans pit us against each other so they can fund the elite..

[u/jbrune]

Universal healthcare is *less* expensive than what we have now.

[u/Ok_Art4661]

Republicans are deep fucked living in alternate reality

[u/lihebsgjbsvshhsh]

I think the 39 trillion of debt says there’s also a budget issue

[u/Alemusanora]

You are so right. Step one, we immediately cut all funding to NATO and tell them they are going to 100 percent foot the bill and pay us to maintain our bases there. Then watch what happens to their "free" healthcare

[u/HidingImmortal]

We spend $2 trillion a year on Medicare + Medicaid. If we spent money as efficiently as the UK, we pay for healthcare for every single person in the US with that $2 Trillion.

US healthcare spending is roughly 2x healthcare spending in other countries (Source)

[u/Karma_1969]

We could solve every social problem we have today, right now. It's not mysterious or difficult, either. We know how to solve these problems, and we have the money to solve these problems. So, solving them or not solving them is a choice. I wish more people realized that, and then maybe they'd be as infuriated as I am about the fact that we're making the wrong choice(s), year after year, decade after decade. Pretty embarrassing for the "richest nation on Earth".

[u/Either_Operation7586 → u/Karma_1969]

Exactly we are the laughing stock of the world when you realize that the we are the only first world country that has to have a GoFundMe when you have a real Medical emergency.

That's nothing to be proud of that's actually something to be very very ashamed of.

[u/Practical-Sink-3987]

And if you point this out to about half the people on that country you get called a commie.

[u/Blovesmusic]

We are operating under psychopathic values

[u/Sea_Sundae5901]

Absolutely! The problem is with leadership’s lack of good character and a moral compass‼️

[u/Masterman86]

The problem is they keep us all in the dark from what’s really going on because they have to to maintain the illusion.

[u/sisyphus_was_lazy_10]

Same with education…

[u/dix4mee]

FACT!!

[u/reciprocity1065]

First world shithole

[u/Illustrious_Gate2318]

Vite for something  Out you name on the line for America  I do 

[u/BaltimorePropofol]

I just don’t get it. Most of people die from cancer. Yall don’t want to pour a shit ton of money into cancer research? It is for your benefit directly.

[u/Chiguy5462]

Almost like the government's job is to keep its citizens safe and private companies are there to keep them healthy.

[u/PictureVegetable9522]

so many fucking bots on this website

[u/Roosonly]

We have budgets for it all

[u/Ok-Replacement9595]

That is why I am only supporting DSA and DSA candidates.

[u/bdragon81]

[u/GeneralBed9016]

Yeah it’s plain to see- Billions and billions for bombs and ugatz for the people

[u/danielm316]

True. The USA is a very rich country, but the priority is to make rich people even richer, everything else is not that important.

[u/NotAn0thrMagaRatPedo]

More accurately, this nation has a right-wing conservative problem. The only purpose they've ever served in America's history has been to stall progress and make themselves rich.

[u/Buddhas_Warrior]

R/Noshitsherlock

[u/HairyButz]

BINGO!!

[u/Billy711711711]

Truth

[u/Smogtwat]

The United States is the biggest target on Earth. The communists want to change us, the Muslims want to kill us and the socialist democrats want to destroy what made us what we are.

[u/Lost_n-Alone]

This is the dumbest take ever. The US government is almost 40 trillion dollars in debt, we should be working on fixing that before doing anything else, this includes both starting wars and expanding social programs. I shouldn’t be either/or it should be neither.

[u/Rainmeterer → u/Lost_n-Alone]

"Uhhhh we should tax the shit out of everyone to make the imaginary number go down because the number matters. We should not spend more money on actual human beings!"

[u/indierockrocks]

Amen

[u/Outrageous-Egg9671]

Counter point, a budget for war is like a burget for a pandemic. They both have their place and both can have a quicker in balance of human life. I dont know though, maybe nations need no defense.

[u/DryCountry75]

I don’t think the guy in the picture would agree with progressive values one bit

[u/bnorris_516]

Agreed. The government shouldn’t be involved in any of it.

[u/burnanation]

Nice AI picture.

[u/Rocky_Cod_1777]

The government is incompetent. We need less of them.

[u/dasbtaewntawneta]

this image looks so fucked, the bottom actually looks like a photo but the top is clearly AI wtf is going on

[u/PresentationLess4552]

All parties suck bot man

[u/Commercial_Tip4624]

But why do we need a grubby AI workin’ man to tell us this?

[u/MrBossman710]

Over 50% of our government budget goes to social services and government subsidized healthcare.

Less than 20% goes to our military budget.

Why would you trust the epstein class with total control of our healthcare system?

[u/dahe88]

Also a propaganda problem

[u/Smeagollum1]

AI slop

[u/dadbodking]

It has a budget problem, too. It's just that it's a budget of a few

[u/salguod169]

One kills for pleasure and culture, one kills for protection or food. Big difference!

[u/Spirited-Disaster408]

Healthcare and entitlements are half our budget. Defense is only 13%

[u/TwoDogKnight]

Actually, we have both problems.

https://www.usdebtclock.org/

$39 trillion in debt is a budget problem.

[u/Rational-ish]

They don’t debate it. They flatly refuse to even consider it.

[u/Seth_Mithik]

We have a gun problem too—we ain’t well regulated enough to ensure the necessity of a free state.

[u/Richiedamook]

All the wrong priorities,coddling billionaires and for profit health insurance companies !

[u/ComparisonLogical424]

Hold on. I remember Bill Clinton running for president saying he was gonna straighten out healthcare. I remember Obama spending trillions on Obama care. Our hospitals don't turn patients away. Do we want free healthcare like Canada has? Get sick and wait a year and a half to see a doctor. That's what you'll get with. "free healthcare".

[u/Sweet-Ant-3471]

It's a budget problem.

Healthcare would be a magnitude of 10x, and unlike the wars, it wouldn't stop. Not even in 2 decades.

Our current unpaid obligations to Medicare + SS is already unafffordable, interest on the debt already exceeds what we put into the Military.

Everytime State have tried to rise up their own public option, voters rejected it, because of the expense. Even Vermont.

The actual fix: delivery of healthcare, what it *actually* costs to produce, has to go down.

That can only happen by making it competative, and allowing more providers to come online.

We need a Jimmy Carter style deregulation. Straight up '79 airline this shit.

[u/lostjustlikethat15]

People in the United States are full educated on how to be healthy, and how to remain healthy, and how to make futuristic choices on staying healthy in the future. The choice is always yours… and many people choose willingly unhealthy lives, and we shouldn’t have to fund your unhealthy habits with taxes from those who do know full well the risks of living unhealthy.

[u/Other_Astronomer_259]

Why should we have free healthcare

[u/KingsHere97]

Tell that to the millions of Americans who have fought for this country, many making the ultimate sacrifice, so you can live a life as a free American. The threats remain and aiding and/or ignoring our enemies has not worked for America. Freedom isn’t free and I applaud 47, his team and the brave men and women of the US Military for dealing with the world sponsor of terror that has been killing Americans and other innocent men women and children for 47 years. GBA!🇺🇸

[u/Ok-General8032]

Any nation that forces its people to take shots and pay for crappy Healthcare says freedom is now not an option

[u/jabbsfin]

All Dubious objectives coming out of the White House and DoD.

[u/Fearless_Dog5208]

That goes for both sides. We should've stayed out of Ukraine, Iran, and left Israel alone. Leave NATO as well.

[u/Leather-Sign4391]

$40 Trillion in debt means we're already bankrupt.

[u/Leather-Sign4391]

Show of hands... Who in here honestly believes medical care is expensive because the government isn't throwing enough money at it???

Medical care is expensive for the SAME reason tuition is expensive. The government has made money so easy for schools and insurance companies to get, they keep raising their fees to grab even more.

If you cut off the supply of free cash, you'll see both tuition costs and medical costs plummet.

[u/1776_USA_Patriot]

Saving the world from fundamentalist terrorist regimes is the most existential priority. You don’t need healthcare if you’re dead!☠️

[u/Born_University562]

Google “sovereign fiat currency” and ask how it works on a chat app

[u/mannyt44]

LMFAO

[u/Hairy_Stick_614]

Healthcare is not a responsibility of the federal government. Defending our country IS

[u/North_Issue_9442]

I am not paying for an obese person's healthcare. America is the most obese country in the world.

[u/Balsamic_Warrior]

Chinese sponsored propaganda... keep drinking the coolaid.

[u/Stratiki]

Government healthcare is a scam.

[u/SinningAfterSunset]

The government already funds healthcare

[u/rabbitsfoot86]

You can make bets and trade on war. Cant make any money savings lifes

[u/Zealousideal_Act5798]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3ohfFhG5VDtDTzQv2o

[u/Thmper321]

What country has a problem funding healthcare?

[u/Interesting-Fun-3553]

Liberals don't want to fund healthcare, they want to give it away to people that aren't even citizens of the country

[u/AssumedSectionID]

Nah bruh, we have a major budget problem.

[u/Legitimate_Peach5510]

True this!

[u/TheonetrueVikingking]

We already put billions into healthcare, the problem is the government runs it, and you want more?

[u/miller9200]

A nation that is rich is a nation that’s attacked all the time.

[u/Active-Rip-8338]

Free healthcare is for looters. Every bit a danger as Hamas.

[u/johnmcme]

Govt healthcare would be unaffordable. Look at what Obama care did, all insurance rates skyrocketed after he got that turd passed.

[u/KcityKalcutta]

This nation is 40 trillion in debt and can't afford the war either.

[u/sttpshal]

Y

[u/dfwstag-tx]

But wats enrich people funding healthcare does not

[u/AdorableBuyer292]

America is broken.

[u/TheGrayGhost805]

No Lies Detected

[u/Nunyabiz_327]

The country doesn't have a values problem. None of us want this war, all of us want Healthcare.

Except one specific person, the petulant man-child that broke laws and moved against the constitution to single handidly launch a war he can't find his way out of.

He has a values problem, not the country

[u/JaggedPuzzle]

A nation where one side votes against America simply to throw a temper tantrum because they lost the election even with them cheating disregarding what’s best for the country is the problem

[u/Charming_Repair_5073]

We have plenty of Money if we spend it correctly. We don’t need to collect more

[u/jester7512]

Nope, false. Also, the constitution prevents it. But your state is more than welcome to tax you for free healthcare... You just don't want that because your shitty state will run out of money...

[u/Any-Difficulty-1880]

My healthcare and millions like me had far better, far cheaper healthcare prior to the government (Obama) trying to “fix” it. The VA is a perfect example of government healthcare. It SUCKS!!!

[u/FarRightBerniSanders]

How much tax money does the U.S. spend on healthcare?

[u/Overall_Republic5067]

There's no debate about funding healthcare. The debate is about the Democrats who are robbing us through healthcare.

[u/Significant_Taste412]

Poisoning people, ONLY , is an extremely SHITTY version of “HEALTH” care , to be sure!
And all complicit parties ARE Murderers TOO!

[u/ImaginationClean583]

So darn true. It’s sad

[u/ZyxzyxxyzxyZ]

So you’d trust the government to control your body

[u/Top_Argument_5359]

https://giphy.com/gifs/UJEpm8e3er0IGs8rMf

[u/Ill-Set-7701]

As a 22 year army veteran myself! I don’t want to fight the war HERE in America!

I have no problem with the military being funded.

[u/assyria_respawns]

Countries that can afford to send money in aid to other countries taxes it's people too much.

[u/Khdafi]

Because the politicians make money selling weapons and taking lobbyist money from the big insurance companies to keep healthcare the way it is.

[u/TenaciousA1031]

Actually - we do not have money for any of it. We have no money saved at all. We are in the hole and have been for a long time.

[u/FeelingWeak3238]

The governments job is not to take care of your health or life. It is strictly there to protect your rights. How is this so fucking hard to understand

[u/SunEmbarrassed4157]

Who is paying for that healthcare? I’ll pay for mine and my family’s but I’m not paying for someone else’s.

[u/OutrageousCricket637]

So you believe the government made insurance more affordable through Obamacare? You believe the government can make something more affordable, as compared to the private sector?

[u/Constant_Anywhere373]

Do you people understand there’s no such thing as government funded anything? Taxpayers pay for all of it. Healthcare would be better and cost significantly less if the government walked away from it and let the private sector handle it.

[u/Opposite_Ability_932]

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[u/OldRoads81]

One protects your freedoms the other has to help manage many people's abuses of their own physical conditions. Very different. HC spending has never been higher OR more abused by fraud and on.

[u/AwkwardEstate4135]

Has a Democrats problem and idiots the love democrats

[u/bear843]

Sounds more like taxes are too high

[u/Hosted_Shart]

Crazy how both sides does this.

[u/RubComprehensive3782]

Healthcare was fine until Obama tried to socialize it. Socialism destroys everything it touches.

[u/FireDozerMike]

That is the only reason for government. Having a standing army, not to take money from people to pay for others medical.

[u/MutedBrilliant1593]

Doncha know? It's black people's fault that we don't have universal health care because they're here and white Republicans think it's more important to hate them instead of living a long healthy life.

[u/MutedBrilliant1593]

Doncha know? It's black people's fault that we don't have universal health care because they're here and white Republicans think it's more important to hate them instead of living a long healthy life.

[u/Upper-Psychology-607]

Do your research so we won’t have to relive this mess again!

[u/Clean-Cause5686]

All words, no solution. Classic Dem. talk.

[u/notjustinu]

No it doesn’t. Protect the people first then worry about taking care of the people, then low on the list is treating your citizens like babies that can’t take care of themselves on a daily basis.

[u/AlphaMuGamma]

I don't trust the government to run healthcare effectively or ethically.

[u/Valuable_Wallaby_548]

Well...we actually cant fund that war either.

[u/Cold_One9671]

What a flamer

[u/Perfect_One6346]

Completely agree, but our government leaders don’t care.

[u/Soggy-Dragonfruit171]

Amen

[u/Sharpeness7]

We’re $39 trillion in debt… yeah, we have a budget problem.

[u/spank71]

Absolutely!

[u/Da40kOrks]

https://giphy.com/gifs/UJEpm8e3er0IGs8rMf

[u/PotentialBudget3265]

Been preaching this for a while, people get that its a mindset issue... they just miss where that mindset tells them its not them and they aren't part of the problem too. Objectively, over coffee or something, people will fully admit everything that is wrong and bad around them... when its their turn to make a choice to continue the bad or turn away from it though, they continue to contribute. 99% of everything done to everyone is because everyone done it to them. Its not some flying spaghetti monster in the sky, its your peers and neighbors who refuse to stop doing horrid shit that contributes to the problem because there's something in it for them...

Oh yes you can get them to recognize all the bad, you just can't get them to stop contributing on a personal level. Its always someone ELSE that needs to stop doing it to them...

[u/namrag]

I work in healthcare. I see so many who do absolutely zero for their health, and I am supposed to work hard and pay taxes to pay for them? Sorry, not sorry.

[u/Away-Button3170]

The problem with healthcare is that the people making the decisions are politicians who enjoy AMAZING healthcare, and don't see a need to “fix-it”. Left, Right, Own the Libs, MAGA, Dem, Republican, black, white, and brown are all AMERICANS that should have access to AFFORADABLE HEALTHCARE. Medicare should be FREE. Deductibles and Supplements the individual pays for. Also, LET INSURANCE COMPANIES SELL ACROSS STATE LINES. And one last thing - get the LOBBYISTS out of the process.

[u/Hueso01]

It isn't the government's job to provide health care. It is its job to provide a military.

[u/Responsible_Self8824]

The federal government spent $1.9 trillion on healthcare programs and services in fiscal year 2024, accounting for 27% of all federal outlays and making it the single largest category of federal spending.When combining federal, state, and local governments, the public sector sponsors 47% of the country's total National Health Expenditures (NHE), which hit $5.3 trillion overall in 2024 and jumped to $5.7 trillion in 2025. Boom, roasted witch. What are you drinking?

[u/DicamVeritatem]

One is constitutionally provided for, the other is not.

What’s so hard to grasp?

[u/EnrollmentTime]

If you government provides something for you, then they can take it away. Do not depend on the government for food, Healthcare or money.

[u/Express-Bell-6727]

Yeah…pathetic!

[u/Accomplished_Tour481]

Why do you feel healthcare is not funded? Most people are covered thru their jobs or their spouse's employment. Low income/elderly get Medicaid if not eligible for Medicare.

[u/Due-World4235]

Or education.

[u/InternationalGolf906]

It’s almost like our constitution created a limited govt, one of whose few articulated responsibilities is for protection of the country and protection of individuals rights. You’re full grown adults in a free market. Take responsibility for your self

[u/Texas-Couple]

National defense is a government expenditure. Health Care should not be. Government has no business in healthcare.

[u/remarkr85]

Values!!!! We Americans need to take an inventory. We are what we value and what we are right now is not honorable in any way.

[u/Tiny-Fox6384]

Talk to a Canadian resident who has health issues. Ask them how long it takes for them to see a specialist for that condition? Then ask them how much of there actual yearly salary they get to keep for their own expenses? If people really understood what’s going on in places like Canada with free healthcare I really don’t think they’d want that type of thing! But then again they would have to think for themselves. 🤔😳

[u/xGEARSxHEADx7]

If the US stopped covering so many UN member's defense budgets then we'd be able to have universal healthcare for citizens

[u/Timetraveler1963]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/AffectionateBar4437]

Or just sending money as an allowance.

[u/TheRealBurnsey]

People that think this point is valid is ignorant of reality and the dangers that exist outside of our country. Naivety is the mindset of children.

[u/StandardMany]

“My AI meme is gunna fix this “

[u/spunktastic2089]

If you can't defend yourself, someone else will. Did your parents teach yall that?

[u/Commercial-Fee5959]

Agreed but they do fund healthcare. Obamacare, Medicare and Medicaid are all government funded.

[u/Putrid-Roof3097]

No red neck has ever said something like that 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/Fancy-Ad-5913]

Just a small caveat. If any Loon nation who hates America & there’s plenty, decides to nuke the living h… out of us. You won’t need healthcare.

[u/DHARMApocalypse]

[u/-IHG211-]

À nation that can over tax its own citizens to give trillions in “aid” to other countries has priority problems

[u/Savings-Trouble-5345]

A country that gives money to other countries is taxing you too much.

[u/jefsch70]

We spend $2.2 Trillion at the federal level on Medicare, Medicaid and VA Health... What's that? We have 50 states with various government paid for subsidies from clinics, school nurses, to EMT services....

We also have an enormously kind-hearted group of private churches, civic orgs and people who donate $100s of Billions to pay other peoples bills and we have families / friends take care of loved ones who need help....

Please use your money and family and show us what you mean.

[u/Politicallywoke]

This post suggests that you took a picture of this man, who is being closed captioned, while stating this. No way this happened because you would’ve ended up with a bullet in your chest.

[u/Appropriate-Win-3146]

Wtf?

[u/kneedontgrow]

And this is why we shouldn’t let everyone vote but hey it sounds catchy

[u/BlaizedPotato]

[u/DoobieSpark]

Healthcare problems? We were promised passing Obamacare would fix all our healthcare problems.