The point is that spending even MORE money on health care doesn't 'solve' problems like this.
So to say that spending billions in Iraq while people at home can't even have proper health care, well, it doesn't make any sense.
Not to derail the subject, but the cost of the 'Global war on terror' for 2009 will be somewhere around $145 billion. Multiply that by 8 years, = 1.1 trillion dollars. US budget in 2009 will be $3.1 trillion. Say the average budget the past 8 years since 9/11 has been $2.8 trillion, that equals $22.4 trillion. Cost of the 'Global War on Terror' in those 8 years has accounted for less than 1/20 of the US annual budget.
In other words, not a heck of a lot of money. But of course, that isn't the point. The point is that having $1.1 trillion freed up to spend on health care wouldn't have solved this problem. Both of us know that throwing money at something like this doesn't solve it. That is the EXACT problem with US health care.
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