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riversedge

(69,727 posts)
Wed Jul 26, 2017, 07:45 PM Jul 2017

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 transition–related 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.”..........................







....................... Trump’s 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 that’s 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.


Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/5-things-that-cost-more-than-military-transgender-health-care/

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5 things that cost more than military transgender health care (Original Post) riversedge Jul 2017 OP
November 8 taught us that numbers don't matter anymore though ck4829 Jul 2017 #1
PBS News said tonight summer_in_TX Jul 2017 #2
High end estimate for trans care would be 1/10th that of viagra/cialis Crash2Parties Jul 2017 #3
I've got another one, posted today on DU FakeNoose Jul 2017 #4

summer_in_TX

(2,685 posts)
2. PBS News said tonight
Wed Jul 26, 2017, 09:11 PM
Jul 2017

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)
3. High end estimate for trans care would be 1/10th that of viagra/cialis
Wed Jul 26, 2017, 10:03 PM
Jul 2017

Low end would be 1/35th as much as we pay to ensure the Generals' little generals can salute.

FakeNoose

(32,356 posts)
4. I've got another one, posted today on DU
Wed Jul 26, 2017, 11:03 PM
Jul 2017

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

link: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141829974

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