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There will be $400M or so more in the US budget.

• dTal 7y ago
  That's a pitiful amount. That's the cost of two F22 fighters, or a single afternoon fighting a war in Iraq.
• dragonwriter 7y ago
  > There will be $400M or so more in the US budget. Just for context, I've been on conversations in a state healthcare agency in a US state that where adapting to an incentive provision in federal law was dismissed on the basis that doing so would delay achieving more immediate state priorities for only on the order of a couple hundred million of federal funding. Annual federal (not total, or even national public just federal government) spending on health is over $1 trillion; $400 million seems like a lot of money on an individual basis but it's not, in that context, even a meaningful amount.
  • s9w 7y ago
    Eh budget comparisons can be used to justify everything. Fact is $400M annually is a fuckton of money and the vast amount of tax payers would agree. Also it's not like the US is seeing any kind of benefit from it.