Comments on: Health Care 16.3% of GDP and Climbing http://medheadlines.com/2008/02/26/health-care-163-of-gdp-and-climbing/ Medical news updated 24 hours Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:22:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Jeremy Jelsma http://medheadlines.com/2008/02/26/health-care-163-of-gdp-and-climbing/comment-page-1/#comment-12580 Jeremy Jelsma Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:42:31 +0000 http://medheadlines.com/2008/02/26/health-care-163-of-gdp-and-climbing/#comment-12580 Like what you did. Here's wishing you and yours a very happy and prosperous new year ! Like what you did. Here’s wishing you and yours a very happy and prosperous new year !

]]> By: The Colorado Independent » Putting earmarks into perspective http://medheadlines.com/2008/02/26/health-care-163-of-gdp-and-climbing/comment-page-1/#comment-9681 The Colorado Independent » Putting earmarks into perspective Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:40:54 +0000 http://medheadlines.com/2008/02/26/health-care-163-of-gdp-and-climbing/#comment-9681 [...] yet to focus its storied reformer talents on tackling this much more pressing concern that today accounts for 16 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product. addthis_pub = 'coloradoindependent'; Print Subscribe to [...] [...] yet to focus its storied reformer talents on tackling this much more pressing concern that today accounts for 16 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product. addthis_pub = ‘coloradoindependent’; Print Subscribe to [...]

]]> By: V RAcer http://medheadlines.com/2008/02/26/health-care-163-of-gdp-and-climbing/comment-page-1/#comment-418 V RAcer Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:56:35 +0000 http://medheadlines.com/2008/02/26/health-care-163-of-gdp-and-climbing/#comment-418 Good number hunting. Piss poor logic. Defense spending is a legitimate cost of government. Providing free health care for those unwilling to pay for their own is not. I've got a plan. Before being able to buy hubcaps, boomboxes, gold teeth, liquor, concert tickets, Ipod, cell phones, etc. (you get the idea), proof of health insurance must be shown. We became a great country because individuals worked hard for the benefits of good choices. Take away incentives and it all goes away. Spend more on defense and nothing to bailout the ignorant. Good number hunting. Piss poor logic. Defense spending is a legitimate cost of government. Providing free health care for those unwilling to pay for their own is not. I’ve got a plan. Before being able to buy hubcaps, boomboxes, gold teeth, liquor, concert tickets, Ipod, cell phones, etc. (you get the idea), proof of health insurance must be shown. We became a great country because individuals worked hard for the benefits of good choices. Take away incentives and it all goes away. Spend more on defense and nothing to bailout the ignorant.

]]> By: Jake http://medheadlines.com/2008/02/26/health-care-163-of-gdp-and-climbing/comment-page-1/#comment-389 Jake Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:50:30 +0000 http://medheadlines.com/2008/02/26/health-care-163-of-gdp-and-climbing/#comment-389 McCain has said we could be in Iraq for the next 100 years. Even if we are not in a full-out war with Iraq but a "continued presence" as McCain has suggested, where does the money come from to continue our nation building? The answer: deficit spending. This deficit spending weakens the dollar makes health care costs go up even faster (i.e. inflation) Here is the amount of money we spend in military spending: $481.4 billion - DOD requested for salaries, operations (except in Iraq and Afghanistan), and equipment. $141.7 billion - "supplemental" budget to fight the "global war on terrorism" $93.4 billion - DOD war costs in the remainder of 2007 $50 billion - additional "allowance" to be charged to fiscal year 2009 Subtotal: $766.5 billion. $23.4 billion - DOE developing and maintaining nuclear warheads $25.3 billion - State Dept foreign military assistance $1.0 billion - recruitment and reenlistment incentives for U.S. military $1.9 billion - Department of Justice for the paramilitary activities of the FBI $38.5 billion - Department of the Treasury for the Military Retirement Fund $7.6 billion - for the military-related activities of NASA $200.0 billion - interest for past debt-financed defense outlays Grand Total: $1.064 trillion There is a crucial link between needless military spending and healthcare costs that are spiraling out of control. We could easily afford to provide universal health care if we cut even just a fraction out of our reckless military spending. McCain has said we could be in Iraq for the next 100 years. Even if we are not in a full-out war with Iraq but a “continued presence” as McCain has suggested, where does the money come from to continue our nation building? The answer: deficit spending. This deficit spending weakens the dollar makes health care costs go up even faster (i.e. inflation) Here is the amount of money we spend in military spending:

$481.4 billion - DOD requested for salaries, operations (except in Iraq and Afghanistan), and equipment.
$141.7 billion - “supplemental” budget to fight the “global war on terrorism”
$93.4 billion - DOD war costs in the remainder of 2007
$50 billion - additional “allowance” to be charged to fiscal year 2009

Subtotal: $766.5 billion.

$23.4 billion - DOE developing and maintaining nuclear warheads
$25.3 billion - State Dept foreign military assistance
$1.0 billion - recruitment and reenlistment incentives for U.S. military
$1.9 billion - Department of Justice for the paramilitary activities of the FBI
$38.5 billion - Department of the Treasury for the Military Retirement Fund
$7.6 billion - for the military-related activities of NASA
$200.0 billion - interest for past debt-financed defense outlays

Grand Total: $1.064 trillion

There is a crucial link between needless military spending and healthcare costs that are spiraling out of control. We could easily afford to provide universal health care if we cut even just a fraction out of our reckless military spending.

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