> Over the last decade, the U.S. Navy has spent $3.4 billion on attack submarines

> That is a total of $6.5 billion of your dollars spent on attack subs that can't do anything, and in some cases, won't ever do anything again. What did you want, health care?

It's so cute that Jalopnik thinks this is even a water drop of money compared to the Europa sized oceans of money spent on health care per YEAR by the Federal government

It's so cute the US readers throw all of europe into one basket.

The economically biggest european nation, Germany, has a health system where the federal government spent almost no money on health care. We have insurances, lots of them. Some of them for-profit, some of them non-profit. So employers and employees finance the vast majority.

(Truth be told: a good amount of hospitals are in the hand of municipalities, countries or universities. So governmental funding also arrives there. But that is not at federal level, e.g. universities are financed by the 16 states.)

That you guys confuse a mandatory insurance system always with federal funded is beyond me. Perhaps you equalize --- without proof --- federal funded with bad?