We are spending double what they spend in Europe, but we are likely to spend even more with a government takeover, at least if we don't want to have less quality care.
All the costs of Iraq are incremental..
Every dollar of spending adds to costs, deficits, debt, etc. equally. Ongoing programs just the same as new programs, money spent in the past is sunk cost, but each years new spending for everything is incremental.
And if that wasn't the case, well Iraq isn't "a new program" anymore, but any new or expanded government health care program would be new.
there are even separate non-pentagon budgets.
Which means just about nothing in this context. You can put the budget in any category you want, the regulator military budget, a supplemental for Iraq, hell you can put in under NASA's budget or under farm price supports, it doesn't change the nature of, or the impact of the dollars spent. |
