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United States | health spending | at parity | all sectors | $2.199 trillion per year (2007) Military $503.4 billion per year (US dollars per year) (2005 esti
by ixacto 13y ago
United States | health spending | at parity | all sectors | $2.199 trillion per year (2007)
Military $503.4 billion per year (US dollars per year) (2005 estimate)
I assume these numbers have expanded since then. What is really disturbing in my mind though is that while it is quite easy for most people to get EBT/Welfare in the USA to purchase beer/cigarettes/chips, it is much more difficult to get effective healthcare.
HFCS-laden soda is quite cheap, so are trans-fat laden baked goods and frozen foods. Diabetes and heart disease are not though.
- sliverstorm 13y agoHFCS-laden soda is quite cheap I've heard it's mostly taxes/tariffs on imported sugar that make it this way; most of the rest of the world, sugar cane is cheaper than HFCS, so they use sugar cane.