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> They have it because they don't spend on defense like the USA does.

That doesn't feel right to me.

In the most recent year with data, as a percentage of gdp:

party healthcare military

eu 10.95% 1.56%

usa 17.36% 3.45%

stark difference, but "the only reason eu has socialized healthcare is because of their low military spending" just doesn't reconcile in my mind to the above numbers

[source data](https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/euu/eur...)



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