Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Health Care Cost vs War Cost

Health care reform is predicted to cost as much as 1 trillion dollars over ten years. That's 100 billion dollars per year. How much have we spent on two wars so far.....912,341,987,178 since 2002. That's well over 100 billion dollars per year. So why can we afford to spend a 100 billion dollars per year on wars but not on health care?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Foreign soil has always been the best place to launder tax payers money. If America tracked every tax dollar spent tonight, all wars would end tomorrow. I believe its that simple.

Anonymous said...

"...why can we afford to spend a 100 billion dollars per year on wars but not on health care?"

We can't afford either one. We'll spend more than $2.3 trillion this year on health care - more than $1.1 trillion of it (almost half) paid for through the government.

Since 2003 it's increased by roughly $400 billion/year. Roughly equivalent to the total military budget.

That government-paid amount is expected to continue to increase by about $100 billion/year for the next decade. Not an extra $100 billion per year like you're suggesting - an extra $100 billion this year, $200 billion next year, $300 billion the year after that (compared to today)... And that doesn't include any new costs from health care "reform".

So the idea that we shortchange health care is just wrong, and the idea that the military is lavishly funded relative to health care is laughable. The problem is that health care is every bit as much a money pit as wearfare.