Paying for dying but not living

Depending on whether one uses top-down calculations (looking at what has been spent and projecting that number into future cost estimates) or bottom-up calculations (looking at the expense of individual necessities, like bullets and adding all those expenses up), and depending on what one considers a war expense (e.g. are post-war vet services included?), estimates for the cost of the Iraq war vary greatly, reports MSNBC.

Whether it turns out that this unwinnable war is costing us 4.4 or 7.2 billion a week, the number stands in stark contrast to a number the News & Record reported yesterday which said that since Bush has been in office, the number of Americans without health insurance has risen by nearly 10 million. How many billion a week do you think it costs to make sure all Americans have adequate health care?