Where's the best place to spend $100 billion a year? Is it on patrols in Afghanistan? Or is it to refurbish our health-care system so another American doesn't die unnecessarily every 12 minutes? Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu - via AllTop, Seattle Times
Kristof phrases the Afghanistan escalation question in terms of guns or butter health care. Some innovative use of cost-benefit analysis on use of limited resources.
“People talk about waiting lines in Canada,” Harris added. “I say, well, at least they have a line to wait in.”
Doesn’t it seem odd to hear hawks say health reform is fiscally irresponsible, while in the next breath they cheer a larger deployment of troops in Afghanistan?
