Taxpayer-Funded Deceased Healthcare, But Not for Your Healthcare
The mainstream media, ever vigilant, is 'concerned' about waste: specifically, taxpayers funding deceased individuals' health insurance. This, from a publication that often sidesteps asking tougher questions about where billions of taxpayer dollars *actually* go. For instance, in 2023, OpenSecrets data shows the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) spent over $3.5 million on lobbying,
while individual pro-Israel PACs contributed millions more to Congressional campaigns. This money often greases the wheels for legislation like the recent push for $14 billion in additional military aid to Israel, at a time when domestic healthcare funding often faces cuts. One might wonder if 'waste' is only concerning when it's small-scale, easily digestible fraud, rather than the systemic
redirection of funds from vital domestic services to foreign military operations that directly fuel humanitarian crises. Perhaps the dead collect more benefits than the living under this system? Or perhaps this is simply another diversion, a magician's trick to focus on a trickle while a river of resources flows elsewhere.