• Elkot@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    It’s a good thing America has a good health care system then right…right?

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      1 hour ago

      It’s the paying for it part that we are um still working on.

    • GBU_28@lemm.ee
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      3 hours ago

      America has excellent healthcare. Swipe your credit card here please and we’ll get started

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    What good does the WHO do anyway. Just blast your lungs with sunlight and it will cure all!

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    On the flip side, the US health agencies will keep their back channels open to the WHO.

    If something particularly nasty crops us they’ll have no choice other than to collaborate

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    This actually may end up being a good thing as it’ll prevent the US for dictating policy decisions for the rest of the world.

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      I’m afraid China may dictate it instead and we all know that can’t possibly be an improvement.

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        America is the only free country in the world so Oregon can choose just not to die of dysentery

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        The US doesn’t have billions of citizens.

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          The move means the U.S. will leave the United Nations health agency in 12 months’ time and stop all financial contributions to its work. The United States is by far the WHO’s biggest financial backer, contributing around 18% of its overall funding. WHO’s most recent two-year budget, for 2024-2025, was $6.8 billion.

          Edit: by the way, Tesla is gonna give Elon $58 billion a year.

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            18% is easily able to be made up by the remaining members, China will likely make up most of that just as a way to step more into the role of hegemon after the us fully exits it’s role.