Doikayt, Health Insurance, and Israel

In the current Zionist regime, much of our local resources are sent to Israel. In fact, this is at the expense of providing local goods and services. In light of the recent death of a health care CEO, it's informative to look at just how much Israel extracts from jews and others here in the US.

Israel received $24 Billion from the US government alone since the beginning of the current genocide. This number obviously is going up rapidly. Israel also receives roughly $45 Billion per year (adjusted for 2023 dollars). Private donors to Israel exceed the US government's military spending during an active genocide by nearly two times. Every year. And the $45B number is likely much larger this year, since it doesn't include data since the genocide.

Israel spends approximately $45,000 per capita, amounting to 7.9% of its GDP on health care annually, while the United States spends $12,000 per capita annually, or 16.6% of its GDP. 

Now, for out of pocket expenses, which is what patients pay themselves, in Israel it's $20 per year. Twenty dollars per year per capita. That's all people need to pay themselves. In the United States that number is $1,340. People in the United States pay 67 times per year for out of pocket medical expenses than the people in Israel. And Israel only spends three times as much per capita on its health care system.

So, Israel spends more on healthcare per capita for its population, yet spends only half of the fraction of GDP on it, and patients pay 1/67th what they would in the United States. And the Israeli healthcare system is state of the art, fully socialized, and there's universal access (under the constraints imposed by the Apartheid). Gaza also had this level of medical care until Israel destroyed it, of course.

Imagine if these resources were allocated locally instead of to Israel, and went to helping people here instead of erasing Palestinians from the world...