Originally Posted by Brujah

It was mentioned in the other thread but please try to get this through that thick skull of yours if only temporarily. Not everyone in 2010 is an active cop or fireman with perfect health coverage. Many were volunteers without any benefits and unpaid, had health coverage dropped by insurance companies, are no longer eligible or able to work, are already dead, wen't from New York, and a slew of other reasons, etc... Yes, I'm sure plenty of active servicemen have coverage but obviously aren't as sick or in need as the former. While you argue to deny them coverage because it costs too much or you think they all should have had sufficient coverage (in some perfect utopian healthcare world that you're always arguing against anyway), how about devoting just 1/2 as much time to dealing with the $2+ trillion per year the Pentagon can't even tell you what they've done with it because they aren't accounting for it? Just 1 year of that is enough to cover 285 years of $7bn for everyone. It's been going on at least 10 years now which gives you $7bn for 2,850 years.