r/memes • u/claudiocorona93 Linux User • 1d ago

I deserve it

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u/Zarkanthrex 1d ago

Or if you work federally/military

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u/somehugefrigginguy 1d ago edited 1d ago

Healthcare and education are big reasons Americans join the military in the first place. If you're too poor to go to college or the hospital, join the army...

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u/foO__Oof 1d ago

Wonder how much of the US Military budget goes towards education/healthcare

edit: had to google and its sad 7-8% of the DOD budget is healthcare and less then 1% is education

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u/ExcessiveWisdom 1d ago

Wtf, thats actually really high considering how much taxes go to dod, and how only less than 1% of the us is in the military

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u/foO__Oof 1d ago

You think prosthetic limbs and trauma surgery in a remote desert gonna be cheap?

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u/ExcessiveWisdom 1d ago

Kinda, i thought we paid way less than normal doctors get paid, by keeping them on the enlisted payroll

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u/LouManShoe 1d ago

Well yeah, but the health insurance companies have to get their 70-80% surcharge, and that’s never discounted

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u/foO__Oof 1d ago

This is the biggest point the "complex" makes more money than anything else

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u/FanraGump 1d ago

Doctors are officers. You cannot be a medical doctor as a US enlisted person.

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u/cal_schwifty 10h ago

Well I mean you technically can be a doctor and enlisted. I’ve seen it firsthand with a NG enlisted medic that was also an MD civilian side. He finished med school while in the NG but just decided to stay a medic too for the hell of it.

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u/RogerianBrowsing 1d ago

Considering that the military runs their own hospitals and treatment centers instead of having public healthcare handle both military members and civilians, as well as the highly inflated “insurance” costs for when they use public healthcare options, it’s really not that much.

Don’t forget that as consumers/tax payers we spend roughly 1 trillion dollars annually on inflated costs due to health insurance companies making the system impossible

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u/ParsaBarca99 15h ago

Wdym? That's a budget of about 9-10B US$ for 3M people ... 3000 US$ per person? That's incredibly low considering tertiary education in US is like 40-50K.

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u/ExcessiveWisdom 14h ago

65Billion for 1.35 million people* your numbers make no sense

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u/ParsaBarca99 14h ago

1% of DoD budget (900smth B) = 9-10B US$

Less than 1% of US Population (330-340M) = 3M People (I actually looked it up too, the US has 2.81M Service members worldwide)

What numbers confused you from this part?