Some Simple Numbers

Number of cancer patients, either current or recovering, in US - about 12 million.

Aggregate cost of cancer treatment/aftermath in 2008 - $228.1 billion.

Projected cancer patients in 2020 - 18.2 million.

You do the math. And this is just cancer; I didn't even account for the other major diseases.

National debt as of today - $11.7 trillion.

Cost of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars - $897.2 trillion.

I wonder if Obama and Geithner have even seen these numbers. Or even care.

Sources:
1) http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-03-13-cancer-boom_N.htm
2) http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
3) http://www.cancer.org/docroot/MIT/content/MIT_3_2X_Costs_of_Cancer.asp
4) http://www.nationalpriorities.org/