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Originally Posted by Seaver
Chill out with the pissing contest buddy, the US doesnt want to invade Canada. The last time they did was 200 years ago, when we were still enemies of the crown.
If you read my post I never took an anti-Canada tone, nor of either is better than the other. I'm not even going to bother pointing out the mistakes in your post, it's not even worth it, just lets try to guide this back to my origional post about the differences in priorities.
Canada can afford to put its priorities on the peoples welfare because it is friends with the most powerful country in the world. Its only border is with a country that has no interest in warfare with it. They can afford to spend more on other areas, while we are preoccupied with international defense (not to say Canada doesnt send help with us 90% of the places we go).
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Don't take it personally dude.
But you live south of the boarder.
No-one here thinks the US is going to invade Canada any time soon, however, if you asked Canadians, "Do you think it "conceivable" that the US might ever invade Canda", you would probably find that most people think that the possibility exists.
It's not that the US would have to spend MORE money on its health care to have a Universal system. As Charlatan already pointed out, the USA already spends more than Canada on what little health care you do have. It's a question of whether or not you have the balls to eliminate profit from the equation. Do Americans have enough guts to say to the insurance companies, HMO's, hospitals, medical lobby etc. - "Hey, you guys are ripping us off at the expense of our health and we aren't going to take it anymore"
Your lack of Universal health care has NOTHING to do with the size of your military budget.
In terms of percentages of GDP, Greece actually spends more on its military than does the US, and the Greeks have universal health care too.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/...elds/2034.html