The concept that you make (bad bad) companies pay out of their (outrageous) profit is a delusion.
Companies just take part of your salary and with that they pay medical cost.
I actually prefer paying it myself and having this thing called "free market" or competence work for me.
But in places like the US the system is extremely corrupt and designed to make it impossible for the free market to exist. This is inherited by the political system making mandatory for business to handle that instead of individuals.
In other countries you have things like mutuality organizations of people to provide healthcare, much much better and cheaper that what I see in the US.
>Despite the enormous death and suffering the war caused, America's aim was naive altruism.
Invading Iraq was on the agenda way before 9/11. The people that decided it are anything but naive.
>There are conspiracy theories that America invaded to steal Iraq's oil but they are not plausible.
Why not? The second largest oil producer in the world is invaded because of altruism out of their great heart. Geopolitics have nothing to do with that.
I believe is someone is naive here is you. At least you should respect as a valid and plausible theory(not calling it conspiracy in order to denigrate it) that the biggest army in the world are interested in controlling the energy producing countries just like any other empires before. And remember that was USA the ones that ousted the British Empire from Persia and the ones that toppled the democracy there.
There was a civil war in Russia. The Bolshevism won being a minority because they got support from Germany Government in a critical weakness situation of World War.
I bet you can't even understand that from a privileged position on the West, fell fed and well rested.
I have been in Africa helping kids that eat once a day and they are so weak they can't think clearly for long. The same happened in Russia when people almost starved under the civil war and later with the disastrous Lenin politics. Only Lenin people had enough food, stolen from the people, most people were hungry.
Lenin killed 300.000 Russian peasants and 5 million people starved. Russian people were the main victims of communism. Even the navy revolted against Lenin and he was forced to do NEP. With Stalin it got worse.
And small owners of land, specially in Ukraine were exterminated. Anyone that was better at something(kulaks) was exterminated. Any social institution like Church was destroyed.
Given the right circumstances this could happen too in America.