How much does the government spend on health care and Where does the money go?

Answer 1

Not enough and not in the right places!

or a more realistic answer:

We spend incredible amounts on social programs. These programs make up over half of all federal spending. More then the and debt together. In this era of entitlements people are starting to believe they are owed "free" health care. By free they are saying that others should pay for their care because they understand the cost is high and they don't wish to alter their life for that payment. A very narcissistic viewpoint in many's opinion.

Let's look at where that money (which some claim is not enough) goes and how much it is.

Keeping it simple the cost of keeping seniors well in 2007 cost the United States $27,289.00 per person or roughly $953.2 BILLION! (That is 34.9% of the TOTAL federal budget). This is the sad state of our current public option which almost 44% of America is already on this public option. If we add the remaining 56% were to be added onto the public sector insurance what would the portion rise to in terms of total budget?

When you ad these costs into the ever rising number of people being driven out of the private health care insurance through their poor money management and the spiraling costs for insurance because of trial lawyers becoming millionaires at the health industries expense. You can clearly see why the government has no business here. It views this system as a endless cash cow. Much of our Senate and Congress are licensed lawyers. They are the problem. Putting them in charge of the issue is wildly foolish. Fortunately for them, most lawyers are great at class envy and have twisted the issue into a false us against them campaign.

The idea that we should take 1/6th of the American economy away from the private sector violates so many of the rules and freedoms that made us Americans it is sad. When Russia's Pravda magazine is laughing at us and how the Capitalist society killed itself over class envy it makes me feel bad. The children, whose future we have stolen, will look back at those of us that voted for the theft of America and not have many good things to say.