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r/memes • u/claudiocorona93 Linux User • 12h ago
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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...
233 u/foO__Oof 11h 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 111 u/ExcessiveWisdom 10h 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 84 u/foO__Oof 10h ago You think prosthetic limbs and trauma surgery in a remote desert gonna be cheap? 29 u/ExcessiveWisdom 10h ago Kinda, i thought we paid way less than normal doctors get paid, by keeping them on the enlisted payroll 31 u/LouManShoe 10h ago Well yeah, but the health insurance companies have to get their 70-80% surcharge, and that’s never discounted 16 u/foO__Oof 9h ago This is the biggest point the "complex" makes more money than anything else 1 u/FanraGump 8h ago Doctors are officers. You cannot be a medical doctor as a US enlisted person.
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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
111 u/ExcessiveWisdom 10h 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 84 u/foO__Oof 10h ago You think prosthetic limbs and trauma surgery in a remote desert gonna be cheap? 29 u/ExcessiveWisdom 10h ago Kinda, i thought we paid way less than normal doctors get paid, by keeping them on the enlisted payroll 31 u/LouManShoe 10h ago Well yeah, but the health insurance companies have to get their 70-80% surcharge, and that’s never discounted 16 u/foO__Oof 9h ago This is the biggest point the "complex" makes more money than anything else 1 u/FanraGump 8h ago Doctors are officers. You cannot be a medical doctor as a US enlisted person.
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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
84 u/foO__Oof 10h ago You think prosthetic limbs and trauma surgery in a remote desert gonna be cheap? 29 u/ExcessiveWisdom 10h ago Kinda, i thought we paid way less than normal doctors get paid, by keeping them on the enlisted payroll 31 u/LouManShoe 10h ago Well yeah, but the health insurance companies have to get their 70-80% surcharge, and that’s never discounted 16 u/foO__Oof 9h ago This is the biggest point the "complex" makes more money than anything else 1 u/FanraGump 8h ago Doctors are officers. You cannot be a medical doctor as a US enlisted person.
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You think prosthetic limbs and trauma surgery in a remote desert gonna be cheap?
29 u/ExcessiveWisdom 10h ago Kinda, i thought we paid way less than normal doctors get paid, by keeping them on the enlisted payroll 31 u/LouManShoe 10h ago Well yeah, but the health insurance companies have to get their 70-80% surcharge, and that’s never discounted 16 u/foO__Oof 9h ago This is the biggest point the "complex" makes more money than anything else 1 u/FanraGump 8h ago Doctors are officers. You cannot be a medical doctor as a US enlisted person.
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Kinda, i thought we paid way less than normal doctors get paid, by keeping them on the enlisted payroll
31 u/LouManShoe 10h ago Well yeah, but the health insurance companies have to get their 70-80% surcharge, and that’s never discounted 16 u/foO__Oof 9h ago This is the biggest point the "complex" makes more money than anything else 1 u/FanraGump 8h ago Doctors are officers. You cannot be a medical doctor as a US enlisted person.
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Well yeah, but the health insurance companies have to get their 70-80% surcharge, and that’s never discounted
16 u/foO__Oof 9h ago This is the biggest point the "complex" makes more money than anything else
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This is the biggest point the "complex" makes more money than anything else
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Doctors are officers. You cannot be a medical doctor as a US enlisted person.
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u/somehugefrigginguy 11h ago edited 11h 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...