5 things that cost more than military transgender health care
Source: raw story
26 Jul 2017 at 18:17 ET
.........................The study estimated that extending gender transitionrelated health care coverage to transgender personnel indicated that active-component health care costs would increase by between $2.4 million and $8.4 million annually, representing a 0.04- to 0.13-percent increase in active-component health care expenditures...........................
....................... Trumps trips to Mar-a-Lago: Around $21 million (so far)
Trump has been to Mar-a-Lago seven times so far, to golf and for other business. The administration has been particularly secretive of when exactly Trump golfs and when he just visits his golf courses to conduct business. In the 26 weeks Trump has been in office, he has spent 41 days visiting any one of his respective golf courses including Mar-a-Lago. Each trip to Mar-a-Lago costs approximately $3 million, according to the Washington Post in March. The estimate comes from a Government Accountability Office study of a 2013 Barack Obama trip to Palm Beach.
Forest camouflage for Afghan troops: $28 million
The top oversight official in Afghanistan announced Tuesday he was opening a criminal probe into how the Pentagon may have wasted $28 million on forest uniforms in a country thats only around two percent forest according to McClatchy DC.
20 barely used transport planes for Afghanistan: $486 million
A Department of Defense inquiry looked into a transport plane program in Afghanistan..................................
Drug war in Afghanistan, now the world leader in heroin production: $8 billion.....................................
Administrative waste: $125 billion
The Department of Defense commissioned a study issued in 2015 that identified how the department could save $125 billion over five years with no layoffs or reductions in military personnel. The Pentagon tried to kill the study because they thought it would make them look bad in front of Congress and possibly lead to budget cuts, according to the Washington Post last year.
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ck4829
(35,069 posts)K&R.
summer_in_TX
(2,735 posts)that caring for the health needs of transgender troops would cost less than the cost of providing Viagra and Cialis does now.
Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)Low end would be 1/35th as much as we pay to ensure the Generals' little generals can salute.
FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)The military spends five times as much on Viagra as it would on transgender troops medical care
SRS surgery - between $2.4 and $8.4 annually
Erectile dysfunction drugs (Viagra and clones) - $84 million annually
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