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JumpCrisscrossyesterday at 9:25 PM1 replyview on HN

Note that the DHS budget ($100bn) is sufficient to provide healthcare to every uninsured child, and about half (EDIT: a third) of what it would cost to provide universal healthcare to every American under 18 at the CMS average rate.

At the end of the day this sort of wastefulness eventually attracts attention.


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some_randomyesterday at 10:10 PM

Medicare alone costs $1.21 Trillion, I find that extremely hard to believe.

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