Dar šiek tiek grįžtant prie Trumpo kritikos dėl sąjungininkų nepakankamo gynybos finansavimo, reikia nepamiršti kad pačių JAV nemaža dalis karinio biudžeto yra skirta veteranų sveikatos apsaugai ir pensijoms. Europoje (ir Lietuvoje) visa tai yra finansuojama iš kitų biudžeto eilučių.
How Health-Care Spending Strains the U.S. Military
How Health-Care Spending Strains the U.S. Military
“Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive,” said former Defense Secretary Robert Gates in 2011. Military spending consumes over half of all federal discretionary spending: $712 billion out of $1,277 billion in 2011 discretionary outlays. Defense analyst Todd Harrison calculatesthat military health spending is about 9.5 percent of the base defense budget: $52.5 billion out of the $559 billion that the Defense Department requested for fiscal year 2012. On top of that, the Department of Veterans Affairs, which has a separate budget, seeks to spend $51 billion of its $132 billion 2012 budget request on health care.
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