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but how dare we try spend a tiny fraction of that amount to fund healthcare for those that can't afford it
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Oh it's no tiny fraction. NOT AT ALL.
The House bill starts at 1 Trillion. To put that in perspective, the entire health care spending for *everybody*, public and private, is about 2.5 Trillion. And some people think the actual cost of the House bill is 1.6 Trillion... at this level the accounting gets messy, you know...
And so far, every health care approach we've ever enacted in this country has blown its budget to smithereens. The original 1965 warning on Medicare was that, unimaginably, its costs could someday rise to 3 billion dollars. Today it's about $300 Billion and
roughly 14% of the entire US Gov budget.
We can't live with another one like that. This is why the cost-cutting part of the plan has to be in the biggest and boldest print. So far it has been the weakest part.