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Enormous compared to what? We spend 3.2 trillion a year on Medicare, which is 9.9K a person [1]. Imagine if just 1K per person per year (300B) was spent on infr
by ej_campbell 9y ago
Enormous compared to what? We spend 3.2 trillion a year on Medicare, which is 9.9K a person [1]. Imagine if just 1K per person per year (300B) was spent on infrastructure every year to make mass evacuations over a few days possible. Imagine how great normal day to day travel would be once that is in place, city by city.
[1] https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/statistics-trends-and-reports/nationalhealthexpenddata/nhe-fact-sheet.html https://www.cms.gov/research-statistics-data-and-systems/sta...
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Enormous compared to what? Enormous compared to the value provided. > We spend 3.2 trillion a year on Medicare No, we don't. As your own source says, it is only $646 billion on Medicare, and $3.2 trillion a year in total combined public and private healthcare expenditures. > Imagine if just 1K per person per year (300B) was spent on infrastructure every year to make mass evacuations over a few days possible. Then it still probably wouldn't be enough, and we'd get a lot more value for nearly doubling infrastructure spending [0] if we spent it on something else. [0] $416 billion/year in 2014, https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52463 https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52463