re: Doctors Will Euthanize Healthy 28-Year-Old Woman Just Because She’s Autistic

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I love when people use a small country relative to our own and then ask why we can’t do that here.

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The biggest reasons are:

1. We spend massive amounts of money to protect tiny countries like that militarily.

They spend a whopping 1.4% of GDP on their military. Almost one-tenth of what we spend.

Basically, we protect them on our dime, and that goes for most countries we are compared to like this.

2. We also are responsible for over 90% of medical R&D in the world. And the reason we are is because we have a for-profit system. Take that away and the R&D stops. Not just for us, but for the whole world.

So yeah, when our taxpayers are paying for that much military protection AND medical R&D for so much of the rest of the world, they can afford a lot of stuff we can't.