For the sake of the argument, I wanted to make the best possible assumption on socialized medicine in the U.S., so I used Canadian numbers. If you want me to use the U.S. numbers, go ahead and redo the math, and see how the Iraq War / Health Care comparison works out then.

Since the point of my response seems to have slid past you, I'll reiterate it:

Bowser's implication was that we can't afford health care for all because of the war in Iraq.

I pointed out that if the $100 billion per year war were completely shut down instantly, and all the funds magically transferred to a national health care system, it would fund it for a grand total of a month.

If you want to discuss the merits of turning our entire health care system over to the loving graces of modern Washington politics, we can do that elsewhere.

When the government figures out how to get Medicare out of the financial abyss it's in, we can talk about putting all of us on it.