Reply #93: Cost of the War(s )Tradeoffs: Health Care for **269,705,508** People for One Year [View All]

[chill_wind]

That's right.

Taxpayers in the United States will pay $915.1 billion for total Iraq and Afghanistan war spending since 2001. For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:

269,705,508 People with Health Care for One Year

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/tradeoffs?location_type=1&state=888&program=585&tradeoff_item_item=286&submit_tradeoffs=Get+Trade+Off

Pres Obama used to carry around stats from that link above ( nationalpriorities.org ) on a talking points cheat sheet in his pocket.

During the campaign.


It's been my DU sig line for more than 5 years. Keep preaching it, DK. Keep preachin it. Fuckers.