Warbucks and Healthbucks
Let’s take that $60 billion spent so far by the US Government in promoting warfare in Ukraine, and see what better use Uncle Sam might make of it.
There were just under 400,000 personal bankruptcies in 2021. This number has been on the decline since 2010, but still represents the end result of much hardship; and the number could rise as recession hits:
66.5% of bankruptcies are caused directly by medical expenses, making it the leading cause for bankruptcy.
As of April 2022, 14% of Americans with medical debt planned to declare bankruptcy later in the year because of it…
In 2019, Americans borrowed an estimated $90 billion to pay for health care.
The Ukraine blood money bill has accumulated in only 9 months (since Feb 2022); so at this rate it will rise to $80 billion a year.
That would pay an average $200,000 per 2021 personal bankruptcy, or $300,000 if the assistance was limited to the two-thirds of bankrupts citing medical debt as the principal factor.
More than enough, very probably.
Work out how else you might use Daddy Warbucks’ nuclear-war-risking outlay.
