Needs a little perspective. Health care reform looks like it will cost less than $90 billion a year -- while reducing the deficit. (And yeah, single payer would be even cheaper...) That's nothing compared to what we spend on the military:
Just in the last month, the President signed a defense appropriation bill for $680 billion. For this year. That doesn’t include the costs of the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq.The same conservative who can't bare the sticker-shock from health care reform will smugly wave away the sunk cost of defense. One could excuse it as a matter of priority. But then we don't ask our elected officials to explain their vote on defense appropriations like we ask them to explain their vote to provide health insurance to low income children.
