Continuing to peruse my old SciAms I find, in February 1994, Philip Morrison, Kosta Tsipis and Jerome Weisner telling us that "U.S. forces were shaped for conflict with a superpower. The emerging multilateral world calls for a smaller, more flexible, and far less expensive military."
That's right folks, "When the Soviet Union imploded in 1991, the U.S. was still spending more than $300 billion a year for a military that included 350 ships, 16 active army divisions, more than 3,00 planes, and more than 25,000 nuclear warheads. Such massive forces place an unacceptable burden on the American economy and saddle the nation with a military built around an unrealistic scenario of vast global conflict."
1994.
Discussion of public health and health care policy, from a public health perspective. The U.S. spends more on medical services than any other country, but we get less for it. Major reasons include lack of universal access, unequal treatment, and underinvestment in public health and social welfare. We will critically examine the economics, politics and sociology of health and illness in the U.S. and the world.
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