From the article:
This was an experiment which has proven little more than the fact that Washington is barely able to manage the budget for mowing the lawn.
Perhaps the writer misses the fact that at least 15 million Americans were able to secure health insurance since 2009 who did not have it previously. Or maybe he just doesn't care. Either way, for the price of a week in Iraq, we made sure 15 million Americans were able to secure health insurance for at least the last 5 years. Sounds like a phenomenal deal to me - especially when you think about what we got for a buck in Iraq.
Check these Iraq War expenses out and then come back and cry some more about the "insanity" of Obamacare costs:
$1.7 trillion: Amount in war expenses spent by the U.S. Treasury Department as through Fiscal Year 2013.
$5,000: Amount spent per second.
$350,000: Cost to deploy one American military member.
$490 billion: Amount in war benefits owed to war veterans.
$7 trillion: Projected interest payments due by 2053 (because the war was paid for with borrowed money).
$20 billion: Amount paid to KBR, contractor responsible for equipment and services.
$3 billion: Amount of KBR payments Pentagon auditors considered "questionable."
$60 billion: Amount paid for reconstruction, (which was ruled largely a waste due to corruption and shoddy work.)
$4 billion: Amount owed to the U.S. by Iraq before the invasion.
1.6 million: Gallons of oil used by U.S. forces each day in Iraq (at $127.68 a barrel).
$12 billion: Cost per month of the war by 2008.
$7 billion: Amount owed to Iraq by the U.S. after the war (mostly due to fraud).
$20 billion: Annual air conditioning cost.
Link:
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-i...numbers-2014-6
