Message from @codrod
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I’ll have to look that up. I want to say entire but I can’t commit to that claim
Something like 1/3-1/2 of the enitre defense budget is now tricare
Is that true?
Hold on let me make sure I got that right
Even if it is true, I'm not sure what the appropriate number would be expected to be. Especially considering the internal costs of TRICARE will necessarily reflect the general costs of Healthcare, which we have caused to skyrocket.
So all personnel costs are over 1/2 but that includes VA
I think most service industries in the private sector hover around 50% of costs as labor costs.
Tricare includes suplemental health care not VA or actual mil health care right?
So that seems reasonable
I found 52B earlier.
Yeah TRICARE is active dity
Duty
VA is for the vets
TRICARE covers reserves too. Ok looks like Im misinformed. Its $52B which is 10% of the entire defense budget. According to mercatus center
Im not sure where I heard 1/3-1/2. Maybe it was calculated differently
Including the VA or some other commitments to perssonel
Well that could include all health care
Which sounds reasonable.
Plus I dont know if 52B include staff costs or just the base med costs.
But I know for a fact it is growing and alarming the planners at DoD
my faith in that .... zero
No faith that DoD plans things out?
Or you think I am some bullshit artist?
No faith in their budgeting ability
mainly
I am worried no matter who wins politically, our country is headed over the edge in 10-20 years financially no matter what happens.
Good thing we don't have any manufacturing anymore to weigh us down.
We bring the whole world with us at least
Yes the budgeting ability is a disaster
I’m rather alarmed myself. Even Trump isn’t doing much to curtail spending
he saved a billion from Boeing, but I think that's about all 😂
No one seems to be able to
10 might be high, 5 is also totally possible.
Well japan has a debt to gdp ratio twice ours and they are still going strong
Yeah well
So they are a pretty good canary in teh coal mine
Japan is the only country worse then us and they're in an unusual spot.
When no one loans them any more money well know how much time weve got
Hahaha.
I'd have to look into it more, the question is how does Japan set up its public services, debt, foreign exposure, ect.