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Two of those are the same thing and both are much cheaper in countries other than the US where the government is much more involved

That’s odd because spend on all of those things per capita is consistently lower with better outcomes where they’re socialized.

> See healthcare

Medicare is cheaper that US private insurance:

* https://www.kff.org/medicare/how-much-more-than-medicare-do-...

Also:

> A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.

* https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage...

I would say 0/10 apply yourself, but somehow people are still replying