> Anyone who is familiar with either health or defense policy details knows that the US taxpayer is absorbing an absurd amount of cost which enables other countries to do things we cannot
That, too, is nonsense. The price of insulin in the US is roughly 10 times than the price of the same drug, produced by the same company, in Canada. Same applies for many life-saving drugs which are price-regulated in the rest of the civilized world, while in the US they are left to be determined to a large extent by the "free market". Whether you import the drugs or services or not, you can still put a price cap on them, but the US govt simply refuses to do so, by choice.
That, too, is nonsense. The price of insulin in the US is roughly 10 times than the price of the same drug, produced by the same company, in Canada. Same applies for many life-saving drugs which are price-regulated in the rest of the civilized world, while in the US they are left to be determined to a large extent by the "free market". Whether you import the drugs or services or not, you can still put a price cap on them, but the US govt simply refuses to do so, by choice.