Private Sector defeats Public Sector.

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So you want to compare healthcare costs vs war costs?? The one common denominator: been lied to about both. Or should I say "The Government".

 

How about picking on WWII vets instead of us Vietnam Vets. we still be snarky; WWII not so much.

 

http://www.fas.org/s...sec/RS22926.pdf

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Let's put things in perspective.

 

Healthcare.gov, ~100-200 million dollars

 

Vietnam War, 738 BILLION DOLLARS

 

Our government has been far more wasteful on many things less worthy than a healthcare exchange.

 

Fail.

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/12/02/248225524/could-a-tech-giant-build-a-better-health-exchange-maybe-not

 

Oregon has spent more than $40 million to build its own online health care exchange. It gave that money to a Silicon Valley titan, Oracle, but the result has been a disaster of missed deadlines, a nonworking website and a state forced to process thousands of insurance applications on paper.

Some Oregon officials were sounding alarms about the tech company's work on the state's online health care exchange as early as last spring. Oracle was behind schedule and, worse, didn't seem able to offer an estimate of what it would take to get the state's online exchange up and running.

"It is the most maddening and frustrating position to be in, absolutely," says Liz Baxter, chairwoman of the board for Cover Oregon, the state's online exchange. "We have spent a lot of money to get something done — to get it done well — to serve the people in our state, and it is maddening that we can't seem to get over this last hump."