Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/02/27/exclusive-report-shows-8-million-spent-more-than-1-500-transgender-troops-pentagon-dysphoria/2991706002/.
So less than the cost of a single M1 Abrams? You know those tanks gathering rust in the middle of a desert, the ones that no-one wants or uses. Sounds like a better use of that money, if I'm honest.
That's pretty cheap!
How much did they spend on toilet seats?
A single B83 bomb costs $76 million. Yes, ONE. What a shit headline this is. Super manipulative and irresponsible. Can you use more cotton in your weekend edition so fewer Americans get hemorrhoids, please?
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So basically nothing?
Oh boo hoo to the US army not having enough money to buy the newest nukes and jets oh didums
And.....it’s a drop in the bucket by comparison to what’s spent on our military!
A pittance compared to the amount that is actually lost to Fraud!!
$8M / 1500 = $5333 per soldier. Dang! That's cheap! My employer pays $14,000 / yr for my medical. I guess govt health care _is_ cheaper.
How much has it spent on making sure old white generals are hard enough to invade their wives on a nightly basis?
I could use that 8 million for new radios and weapons optics but what the fuck do I know? Let’s turn dongs inside out put them on estrogen. Seems logical. I bet the Russians and Chinese are doing that too. FML
YEAH, so fuck the fact we lost over 5 Trillion on the Iraq debacle.
I live near lockheed martin, a factory that makes military planes, some of which are utterly useless and are not allowed in combat, for the pure sake of not pissing off the aircraft engineers in the area. We can pay for a fucking cheap ass surgery.
How much has it spent on healthcare for non-transgender troops?
If someone goes in to the military as a man to fight for our country, and we cover their gender reassignment and they come out as a woman. The point is, that they still went in and fought for our country. What’s the problem?
Other than discrimination, what’s the purpose of this article, USA? Pentagon has spent a LOT of money on things in which many find unnecessary. Why did you decide to choose this particular issue?
How much $ have they spent providing troops with sex enhancing drugs such as Viagra? Or how about the amount they’ve spent paying for unnecessary expenses, such as paying for high ranking troops to stay in luxury hotels, fly first class & eat at fancy restaurants?
Ok, now do viagra.
The army has 1,443 black hawk UH-60 helicopters, each one cost them $21.3 million.
In the news today, I learned that if you take any governmental spending, especially from a country a large as the US, you'll always turn up with very big numbers that scare people! Up next, the White House spends over 40 million dollars on toiletpaper a year! BAN PAPER!
Did some calculations, that comes to approximately 0.000003 percent of the military's budget since 2016
Military specializes in plastic surgery of this type BC troops injured in combat IN CERTAIN CASES had 2 have male/female organs & body parts REPAIRED. IF...ppl are joining the military for taxpayers to pay for gender transformation I disagree wholeheartedly.
We spent WAY more on viagra.
Wow, so basically nothing compared to what the Pentagon spends money on?
Fuck youuuuuuuuuu
less than a single m109 howitzer
Sure, now do Viagra for the troops!
They should spend more
Wow! Now report on how much they spent on Viagra for the time frames!
That's about $5333/person. Shockingly affordable considering some of the purchases made by the government.
They're serving, what are you doing ?
Who at the Pentagon dropped a bag for you to run this?
Money well spent on people who keep our nation safe. We can’t pretend to “Support the Troops!” if we object to providing healthcare to them.
That's too low. Let's take away the church tax exemption and get more money going to these folks.
This is a gross headline. You make it sound like that’s a lot of money. And alone it sure is, but in the context of the military’s budget it’s just a drop in the bucket. AND the health of ALL our troops is of the utmost importance.
Ok and?
That's not anything. Pentagon spends more on Viagra. Literally.
So 5,333 a person is a problem when they’ll happily pay $80000 for me to go to school?
your transphobia is showing....
Huh, seems people are all for helping 'OUR TROOPS' until they're told how little it takes to help transgender individuals serve their country.
Wow. So affordable. They should INCREASE the spending. I doubt it's enough.
Reading these comments is so inspiring. Thank you all - I can't believe how much support there is for trans people today 💙💙💙
You didn’t think about the optics of this, before you tweeted, I see
LOL OK NOW DO BONER PILLS
The military spent 8 million in the time it took to tweet this
So what
It should be know that the department of defense spent $12 billion on a boat
Dear - next you should do an article on getting ratio'd for saying stupid, bigoted things on Twitter.
dollar to wall conversion is more, and aren't these troops dufus is trying to send to the border?
An average of $1,700/ yr. BFD
so under $5/day per person. cool seems reasonable and good
$8 million is so little. In the same period the Pentagon spent $129 million on Viagra. Stfd
And?
Checks math... That's still less than my deductible for each soldier.
Now do TBI.
Thats...not a lot of money. At all. What's the problem?
Good! That money went into helping Americans willing to exchange their lives for our freedoms* and not for murdering foreign brown ppl. *Oil
The Pentagon spent $65 Billion on healthcare in 2017 alone, but spending .0001% of that budget of 3 years on trans people is too much? Smdh
The framing of this headline is unprofessional transphobic bullshit. Why are you trying to make it sound like this is a large and unreasonable expense, USA Today?
So for 1/4 of the military's spending on viagra we helped 1500 troops?
Nice try corporate media
and how much on war in the past decade?
Also 81 million for erectile dysfunction pills, or does that not fit your narrative?
And how much did they spend on Viagra?
How much have they spent to treat erectile dysfunction? How much for invitro treatments? How much for PTSD? If you’re reporting, add context. Unless you’re just supporting anti trans ideas about not paying for trans peoples medical needs.
What's that? Like the cost of one toilet on a warship?
As long as taxpayers aren't paying for hormone therapy or gender reassignment surgery...
How much have the spent treating PTSD from 2+ never-ending wars?
'Each year, the Army ROTC awards scholarships to more than 13,000 students and provides roughly $274 million in scholarship money.'
For 1500 people, that's a pretty good deal.
DoD budget = $686 billion. $8 million is .001% of this.
Thats pennys to the DoD
Wow that is extremely affordable. That means they’re averaging about 5,300 dollars per person. The whole program cost about 1% of a single B2 which are going out of style as more cost effective drones take their place. This is a wise savings investment.
How much did they spend on Viagra? Serious question.
What, did one of them get cancer once?
That’s just not a lot of money in the context of our $700 Billion military budget
Surprisingly cheap, given how much the military spends on other things!
So we can make meaningful comparisons, please tell us the cost of rx’s for erectile dysfunction for all male troops in any branch of service.
The Pentagon spends this much money in less than 2 minutes and 20 seconds. The total military budget for 2016-2018 is about $1.8 trillion; that's 1.8 million million dollars.
Wait till you learn how much the Pentagon spends on Viagra!
So, probably the most fiscally efficient thing the Pentagon does, then.
So by military spending standards a minuscule amount?
How does this compare to the average medical treatment?
wow a budget the dod managed to not bloat out of control
Good!
what's their budget?
What is your point?
The Pentagon spent $8 million in the amount of time it took me to write this tweet.
How much did they spend on viagra and similar products?
What’s the cost to recruit and train the average army soldier?
LOL you dropped that meager ass number like it's even a drop in the bucket that is the defense budget, FOH with this 'report'
How much has it spent on dental work? Skin rashes? How about antidepressants? 8 million dollars is nothing out of 700 billion dollars.
And?
Their budget is $700 billion, so this is approx .001%
So what? Are we supposed to refuse them medical treatment?
hailblacgoddess see
That's less than one percent of its budget. CONTEXT!!!!!
tvandenbrook Who made the editioral decision to put “nearly” and not “only” or hell, no qualifier at all.
So, 0.0003% of their budget, roughly?
BREAKING: military spends money on healthcare for the troops. Looking forward to the next report: what's with all those guns the troops have?
I'm glad my tax dollars are spent to help people not harm them. Such as: • caging children then sexually abusing them •meeting with murdering dictators for photo ops •traveling family members to do personal business deals on my dime •huge tax cuts to the already wealthy
See how much money you save in healthcare when it’s single-payer? These treatments would have cost millions of dollars more in the private sector. Medicare4All
The Pentagon loses that much every day, so 🤷♀️
I suspected there were no real men left
The Air Force was spending $1,300 per coffee cup for a while. Wait until you hear about the F-35.
Just over $5k per trooper. Worth every cent and I thank them for their service.
A bargain at twice the price!
The defense budget is 686 BILLIONS. I think they’re ok.
That's not a lot, FYI.
Holy shit $8 MILLION? That's gotta be half their budget, right?
That’s literally less then 1% of their annual budget
This is literally fractions of pennies to the pentagon. Really?
Thats literally pennies compared to what the military spends. Trump spends more in 2 weeks to Golf
according to the article, $5.8M of that was spent on therapy. shouldn’t we be proud of this? also, I’m sure if we’re looking to cut spending we can start with the president’s luxury golf trips
So, hardly fucking anything then?
Fix this headline. You know what it implies. How much was spent on viagra during same time period? You used to do pretty good work
WTF? Why did they choose to release that information? The Pentagon gets $1 Trillion a year. What are they doing with the real money? When will the Pentagon be audited?
That’s less than what one self-propelled artillery piece costs.
The pentagon blows its nose with $8 million.
How many trillions it spent in nuclear weapons it's never used
So like a weekend of Mar A Lago golf then. Got it.
That’s great. Well done pentogon
To the U.S. military 8 mill is the cost of a couple of trucks and a round of haircuts. It's mathematically insignificant and irrelevant to the 100s of billions they piss away. But don't let that stop you from writing alarmist headlines to allow bigots or justify their bigotry.
“Only”* not “nearly”. There are apartments in New York that cost more than that.
That's nice. Meanwhile we've spent more than A TRILLION DOLLARS on the F-35, a fighter jet that doesn't work and which the Air Force doesn't even want. But USA Today is too busy bashing vulnerable people to do an 'Exclusive' on that, huh?
That's actually not much.
Drop. In. The. Bucket.
Dang. What a value. Those 1'500 troops can be used when its raining.
The Pentagon’s budget this year is $716 billion. A micro-sliver of the budget went treating transgendered troops.
Do they know about that 'invisible' jet?
Or in Pentagon terms, the price of two hammers and a toilet.
Didn't the Pentagon lose like 20 trillion over the course of a few decades? Just completely lost into a black hole. And you're moaning about a whole $8 million towards equality? Basically medical expenses that the military is ENTITLED to.
So a minuscule fraction of the $686.1b budget.
Wow, if only we had the defense budget to spare...
Pentagon will get $16 billion dollars EXTRA this year alone.
Worth every penny of my tax dollars!
Who cares
You tried to stir up controversy toward trans soldiers with your tweet. You failed. Fire whoever wrote this and also fire whoever approved this, you corporate media bootlickers.
So little
And how much for hundreds of Trump’s golf trips? And his swamp people like Price, Pruitt, and Mnuchin taking trips using military and private aircraft? That’s much bigger news.
Ok- how much on other troops? “Treat them” for what exactly? This cost could be due to anything medically. $5000 per year in healthcare on average per troop is not that much. The average civilian spends about that much a year in healthcare costs. Why word it this way?
Cool now do the F-35 or the Osprey.
...so, if that were all spent in a single Fiscal Year... $8,000,000 / $686,100,000,000 = 0.00001166 ~ 0.001% of the Pentagon’s budget. 0.001% But, it’s NOT spent in one year, that’s spread out over THREE years (16-17, 17-18, 18-19). Averaging $2.67m/year = 0.00038% 0.00038%
Oh noes, we'll go bankrupt at that rate
So
But you know $84.2 million A YEAR for male military members to get hard is totally acceptable!
What's it cost to treat 1500 cisgender troops? And how the hell do you call this headline acceptable?
how much did they spend on war crimes?
Drop in the bucket.
Oh, that's not much. I wonder how much they spent on viagra...
Wow for the price of a single hex bolt on an F22 you’ve managed to help 1600 people
In the same time period, how much was spent on Viagra prescriptions?
Now do Trump’s golf cart bill...
So that’s…by my calculations… 0.01% of the latest INCREASE of your military budget? Meaning it’s something close to 0.001% of the total budget? It’s basically a rounding error lol.
Well this clearly wasn’t the response you were looking for, was it?
That is 6 minutes worth of the 2018 DoD annual budget of $640 billion
By the way, you should read the comments. We aren't buying what you're selling. Not anymore.
You should tell everyone what they pay for boner pills.
How much was spent on Viagra?
Sooooo
That’s only $1,800 per year per person...
How much did America just waste on this failed summit?
Why so little ? That's less than a 10th of the cost to the country of the commander in chief's golf breaks.
So?
And this is your breaking news? Who writes this crap
with an average of about 600 billion per year in 2016, 2017, and 2018, that means they spent about 0.00043% of the money on transgender services. Oh my. We'll get depleted. *massive eye roll*
Now do redheads.
And so?
That's an average of about $5400/person over three years (2016-2018), or less than $150 per troop/month. I pay more than $1500/month for health insurance alone. So my question is, how/why does the Pentagon spend so little on those troops?
How much equipment was abandoned in Iraq?
How much to send troops to the border to put up barbed wire?
How much for a refrigerator for AF ONE
Small price to pay for those individuals’ sacrifices and their happiness. Remember our DOI? Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness?...
How much have we spent for the President to play golf? Now, which of those 2 groups are putting their lives on the line for our freedom?
Now compare that to how much it has spent on the F-35, which is completely useless.
Shameful headline.
We literally spent 10 times that on Trump's golf trips over the same period. perspective
I bet they spent that much treating poison ivy too. BFD
Hey, good for them. Maybe if they stopped wasting money on boner pills and planes that don't work they could treat even more of their soldiers.
incredible bargain well done team
Wow, it's really uplifting to hear about how much we care for our veterans.
Sounds pretty budget friendly if you ask me.
SWEET! Universal health care works! Look at how affordable that is!
So?
This also shows the incredible price change when you’re dealing with a single payer system.
That's $5,333 per person. 5/8ths of that cost is from therapy. This is actually pretty affordable.
That is literally pennies to them & those soldiers fucking deserve it.
That is 0.01% of the entire budget. $8 million is essentially nothing
wow that’s almost zero dollars in military terms
As it should. They fought for our country, to deny them treatment wouldn't be right.
So just change they found looking through the F-35’s couch, then?
DOD spends 10x that amount each year on erectile dysfunction meds.
Now tell them how it's less than 1% of what the DoD spends on medical care for servicemembers.
Y'all are pathetic for making this article.
This rules. Should be spending more of these brave folks.
now do unnecessary wars by cis white men
and what exactly is the annual military budget? I can't believe this is even a headline...
So about $5300 each? Seems pretty reasonable for an individual’s health care. Not sure what the news is here USAToday?
This years military budget alone is 600 Billion. 8 million would be like a rounding error, and it's being spent on those troops you always say you like so much and not saaay making tanks and letting them rot in a desert.
you could have just said 'only $8 million' because that's literally nothing to the point that rounding errors are more significant but no, you have an anti-trans agenda to cater to
That’s how much the Pentagon typically pays for one screwdriver
Sounds like a lot. But It's out of like Trillions. It's a small price to pay to have not-me have to go out there and do the war things that always end sad.
This is deeply irresponsible journalism. $8 million dollars is *NOTHING* relative to *ANYTHING*, particularly when dealing with healthcare for 1,500 individuals.
So the Pentagon has spent 10% of Trump's golf budget on healthcare for 1,500 transgender troops? Sounds like we need less golf and more trans soldiers.
So nothing?
Yep. You’re right. That’s Pentagon pocket change.
This is absolutely a non issue
Now do erectile dysfunction
They put their lives on the line...so....cool.
Wait a minute, three years of healthcare for 1500 troops only cost American taxpayers 2 cents per taxpayer per year? That's amazing! Just imagine how much the quality of care could improve if that was raised to 3 or 4 cents. Surely the F-35 program could spare a couple pennies?
How much to treat CIS gender troops?
8 million? that’s a lot, almost enough to cover one seatbelt for an f-35
So?
THINK ABOUT HOW MANY PARADES TRUMP COULD HAVE WITH THAT MONEY! LIKE.... 2 or 3 maybe?
I am shocked that the Pentagon spent money on something of value.
How much did it spend on sexual assault cases?
Ah shit, and to think that money could have gone into killing civilians.
a bargain at twice the price
Wait til they find out how much we spend on LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE
The US military spends more on braces for purely cosmetic reasons - and they'll even pay extra for transparent ones (such as Invisalign) so that the sponsor doesn't have to feel self-conscious about having braces in their 20s/30s
And?
Oooo, oooo. Now do how much the Pentagon spent on erectile dysfunction scripts.
So... Like, four Tomahawk missiles?
That's $222 a month per patient. That's nothing. Trump costs us millions every weekend.
Good value!
A.k.a. the cost of two golf trips to Florida.
Nice, it should do more
So, it spent about $2700/year/person? That is significantly less than I spend on medical costs in a year.
Today we learned that the USA Today thinks 'Trans people get medical care' is the biggest scandal going on in US politics right now.
'According to WaPo, Trump has taken some 19 trips to Mar-a-Lago during his presidency so far. If the average cost of $3.4 million for the first four trips is extrapolated, that means the president's vacations have cost taxpayers at least $64.6 million.' 2-5-19 NPR
unusually prudent for the US military
That’s over the course of almost 3 years. One jet costs quite a bit more than that.
That’s actually amazingly inexpensive
How much was spent on Viagara for our troops? I'll wait.
8 million? We could've bought the EPA 4 mattresses and a box of pens for that!
F 35 is the excuse expenditure they use for illegal Black ops everywhere..
Good, if that's what it cost. The F-35 has cost more than the GDPs of most countries and isn't slowing down. We can spare some to take care of our people.
So less than what they spend on Viagra.
You should actually be ashamed of the click bait nature of this article. It's clear the title serves no greater purpose than to make transphobes who have never spent a day near the military feel better. 8 mil is /nothing/.
That's something like $1,800 per person per year. Sounds like a good deal to me.
So like 0.000333% of its total spending (800 billion annually x 3 years)
There are 1500 service members who have put their life on the line for this country. That’s $5,333 per service member (on average) is a low amount in healthcare considering.
Now do boner pills
Article's actually quite even-handed and makes the same 'this is actually a really good cost-to-soldier ratio' points many of the replies are making, This seems like another case of 'The Editor Decided To Make Me Look Like A Prick'.
Nice job on your rampant transphobia, . Must worked reallllly hard to put together this steaming pile of bigotry.
8 million among 1500 troops, for roughly 3 years... about $35 a week each?
So like, 1 jet.
Oh hey, $1,700 per year for healthcare (some of which is one-time)? Sounds pretty cheap to me. Take your transphobic insinuations and shove em.
So $2700/soldier/year? Is that supposed to be a bad thing? Did you think adding it up and multiplying it by 2 was a code to make it worse?
that's rad, and they should spend more
8 million, that's it? So the financial argument for banning trans people was actually total bullshit? 8 million is nothing when you think about that trillion we spent on a fighter jet.
How much is the F-35 again?
The U.S military budget is roughly $686 billion. Meaning we spend roughly 0.00001 percent of the budget on transgender needs. $8 million is absolutely nothing.
Now do a story on how much the Pentagon spent on stupid soldiers who got hurt doing stupid shit while drunk?... or high... or how much was spent covering up sexual assault by those same str8 troops also, stop the click bait BS articles. Welcome to the 21st century
Ok? They spent $41 million on viagra, a drug that can literally only negatively affect combat readiness. Plus, y'know... the F-35...
Damn, that could afford another Trump trip to Hanoi. That was a productive meeting
Your “president” spend more on his stupid vacation.
Cool. Spend more now.
Pentagon spends five times more on Viagra.
Now tell us how much they spent on fighter jets that were immediately obsoleted.
Wow, that is such a tiny amount of the budget, which i am sure is the entire point of the piece, and not at ALL trying to frame it as wasteful!
Hey USA Today how about you fuck off with this transphobic trash
I hope your point is this is a remarkably small amount of money compared to the overall Pentagon budget
As a tax payer, I'm good with it!
Cool, now do viagra.
Good! The military did something good! Wow!
That’s not a lot of money.
Dude Luol Deng got like double that this year. Tis not of great depth relative
This is inhumane reporting.
You all are worried about the military affording things all of a sudden, even when on their scale this is spending 1/64th of the change they found in their couch this month
And?
As the cost of our phony 'war on terror' approaches 6 TRILLION but yeah, we really gotta cut back.
The Pentagon has spent more than $120 million per day in Afghanistan, for the last 18 years.
So, 1/5th as much as they spend on Viagra? (source:
That's nothing for the military.
For those who don’t understand numbers that’s $0.02 per American
Now do erectile disfunction and alcoholism.
That's mad cheap lmao
So $5k per person? Aren't the Marines offering $70k for a stupid crayon eating infantryman? Seems like a deal if you ask me.
you forgot to mention in your headline that $8 million, which sounds like a lot, is really just a drop in the bucket of the military budget
Two thousand dollars a year per soldier for medical care? That’s... remarkably inexpensive.
Remind me again how much a single F35 costs? And how many times one has been used in combat?
'The tab for Viagra alone, which was prescribed more than 905,000 times, was $41.6 million. '
Ooooo, so they've spent something like 0.00000625% of the military budget? SHOCKING BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!
The numbers given in this article suggest they are spending less per transgender person than they are the average. 2.1M service members, $50B on healthcare for them. That's $23K per person yearly. 🤨1500 transgender.$34M. 3 yrs- $102M. Someone's lying. My math wrong? MathMatters
So, in other words, a *rounding error*. Hardly worth the hype.
So on average they spent $5500 per soldier in 2 years? That sounds like a bargain. My insurance company spent more on me in 2 years.
The American Military is no place for social experimentation.
Trannies shouldn't receive health care, especially gender reassignment surgery, related to their elective mental illnesses. Road marching injuries are OK...
Back of the envelope calculation says that's 0.0004%, or four ten-thousanths of of one percent of the 2016-2018 DoD budget of approximately 1.92 trillion with a T dollars.
So what? We see through your transphobia. Trump already banned them from service, shouldn't that make you happy?
This is a disgusting attempt to legitimize Trump’s discriminatory policy. The DoD spent $50 Billion on health care. Spending on trans troops is NOT gonna empty that piggy bank. I am so disgusted.
That's, what? .0008% of the Pentagon budget?
$8 million We couldve paid for ten of Trumps trips to maralago for that much!!
Wait until you hear about this war in Afghanistan we’re paying for!
How much did the pentagon spend on Viagra over the same period?
You getting tired carrying that water yet USA Today?
what is that, like a single 3-star general’s cut after skimming off an un-auditable Pentagon program?
And how much did they spend on nin transgender troops? What's you're point?
The Pentagon had probably spent more than 8 million on 'hammers' as line items in the same time.
us with how much they spend on Viagra next
That sounds like a bargain. We’ve spent nearly 90 million in golf trips for the Conman in Chief. Usually at his own properties where he directly benefits monetarily.
my god that's their munitions budget for an entire ten seconds
How much do they spend on TV ads and recruitment drives to get that many people to enlist in the armed services? I'm also fairly certain that it costs them more to have female troops than male, but they managed to overcome that hurdle too.
Why are you clickbaiting something that is a mere sliver of the defense budget? More than 10x that is spent on ED medication. What’s your point?
How much did the military spend on Viagra?
Half of the individuals seeing this won’t read to the bottom portion of this article that discusses how small of a fraction this cost is compared to the 716 bill budget... Y’all knew what you were doing with this headline
Now do how much they spent on Viagra. I'll wait.
that seems cheap
Good.
Ok so nothing. How much for the kill toys?
I'd give my last dime for our brave soldiers. You should be ashamed of this article. How about you do an article on how much we've spent on the draft dodging trump to play golf... It's like over 80 million isn't it?
$8 million is a rounding error for the Pentagon.
Wow. That’s it?
Instead of the hateful click bait, you should have used the first line from the piece “According to the U.S. Trans Survey, conducted by the National Center for Transgender Equality, a third of trans people have faced discrimination from a health care provider” TransTroops LGBTQ
exclusive: pentagon spent money to care for soldiers
Compared to the 41.6m for viagra alone for the old men who can't get it up. Fuck all the way off with this. It's a tiny drop in a very deep bucket and trans people deserve to be able to serve and have healthcare.
Oh so you mean like basically nothing? Your paper is a joke
Seems like a good deal TransTroops TransRights LGBTQRights
That’s cheap
God Bless Our Troops
That is the only good money they spend
How much have they spent on Viagra?
K
And that’s less than they spend on Viagra and treating Erectile Dysfunction.
Pentagon has spent multiple trillions of dollars to commit thousands of war crimes since 2016, exclusive report shows
how unjust to have your employers health plan pay for $5,000 worth of health care costs
8 mill isnt close to a drop in the bucket
Soooo over 2 years you spent $5333.00 per person. Or $2666.00 per person per year. That’s less than my coffee bill per you. Good on you for saving money 🤨🤨
to be clear, they spent 8M of their cumulative 1800000M budget for those years?
The annual Pentagon budget is north of $600 billion, so this is pocket-change for them. Also, we’ve spent $1.5 trillion on a fighter jet (F-35) that doesn’t fly.
That’s pretty cheap
But transgenders are not right in the head, why hire them in the first place?
Because transgender soldiers don’t deserve medical care?
So they spent a tiny, tiny percent of their budget on something good?
This is a terrible headline. Misleading in its implication that that is a lot of money 'wasted', when it's really just pennies in that budget.
So practically nothing.
The Pentagon wipes their asses with that kind of money.
So about 2 of Trump’s golf trips to his personal properties.
So...one weekend of golf at Mierda Lago for trump.
Seems like a bargain actually. What's the problem?
Oh look, more dangerous horseshit from the corporate media. Lovely.
Wait till people find out what it costs to build a single fighter.
Okay? That was cheap.
Pentagon spends over $84 million on viagra in 2014 alone.
nobody tell usa today about the abrams tank!
Big fucking deal. We spend money on our people.
How much do they spend on Viagra?
DsOchoa All volunteer force. Awesome humans.
get a real job
How much for Viagara?
That’s a rounding error.
Great
They pay more for Viagra for all the soldiers that can't stand at attention.
Love that ratio you funny color newspaper.
So... $5k a piece? Is that supposed to be bad?
ah yes and no cisgendered person in the military has ever needed a surgery so their total is $0
How much did they pay for Viagra?
USA Today trying to make Americans hate transgenders Not going to work - especially since military spends a ton of money on non-transgender troops It’s called taking care of our fighting men and women Perhaps USA Today wants to rebrand as RT Today
Oooo, now do Viagra and Cialis spending....
Shameful. Thats 5k per person. Should be 20 times that amount.
Now do the F-35 fighter and we will let you just report cost overruns. ForProfitMilitary
How much did they spend on viagra? GFY
And how much money and lives have those transgender troops saved America? I’m betting 200 times that amount.
Good. Now tell us how much trumps golf trips cost.
Now write it as a percentage of their budget. I dare you.
Good.
So... not much?
Defund everything except this
So, roughly $5,333.33 per person? I don't see the problem here. My insurance company paid a hospital $7,000 for a 3-hour ER visit for my kid's asthma. If a soldier has a problem that can be treated for $5,333.33, then I'm more than OK for my tax dollars to fund that treatment.
And?
That comes out to 27¢ per taxpayer.
That sounds concerningly low tbh
Even if it was 8 million in the past one year and not the past 3 that would nothing. I calculated that out. Thats 0.00116601 of just the 2019 budget. Now remember this is 8 Million from 2016 to 2019.
Right on...
That’s like $5000 per person. Less than $2000 per person per year. Pretty fucking cheap.
How much did they spend on murdering civilians?
So not that much then, sounds good.
And how much on Viagra?
oh ffs
Wait until you learn about how much they have pissed away on the F-35.
We have spent 89 MILLION on trump playing fucking golf since 2016 Spare me this bulkshit outrage
Extremely misleading headline. What were they treated for? Basic investigative journalism.
This is the 'reason' Trump had 'em banned? $4 mil/yr is literally pocket change for them. Asinine.
How much on Viagra for older men with certain ‘issues’
So...pocket change?
So, a drop in the bucket. Without context this headline is irresponsible
That is not even a rounding error on any given Tuesday for the Pentagon.
The Petagon spends $8 million a year on ketchup and mustard.
So what?
It took a long time in the article to get to pentagon's yearly cost for healthcare. That makes your headline misleading, you *know* that '$8 million' registers as 'big number'. The ethical headline would be, 'Pentagon spent aprox .005% of health care budget ...'
Good.
Good deal
A ton less than what is spends on boner pills.
And we’ve spent trillions on war and genocide , so ......
Yeah, I so have no problem with that amount spent on actual people. As opposed to the numerous bombs that cost millions, that I would like to never have been bought, built, or dropped, in name of USA. So again. No biggie on this.
Cool. How much for boob jobs nd erectile dysfunction for cis folks?
Oh... now do Viagra
Sounds pretty cheap really. So why are you buying into the bigots' framing here?
Do the war on terror next
awesome, glad we could keep costs so low for once. thank's
Out of what total health care expense?
Yes, this is clearly where all the exorbitant spending is going. I mean, what percentage of a $700 billion military budget does $8 million comprise?
that's like $5,334 per individual. I'd be frankly shocked if they paid much less than that per capita for their cis troops' healthcare.
How much to treat non transgender troops since 2016? Since 9/11?
Is this actually supposed to seem high to anyone? Let me put it in perspective: if the military budget was your bank account, this would be a few cents.
In other words, a pittance. BadJournalism LyingLedes SHAME FascistBootlicks
And?
The pentagon shouldn't have to pay
they should spend 800 trillion
how much has the military spent on PTSD? on ED? why are you reporting this specifically?
glad their doing something decent with their money for once
By military budget standards that's a rounding error.
How much did we pay trump tower for Melania to stay there? How much have trump's trips for golfing and rallies cost? How much do we pay the trumps for the secret service rooms at trump's resorts when he is there?
I'm sure they've spent much more covering up the rapes & murders of women serving in Iraq.
Ok now do how many boob jobs they have paid for? I know plenty who have gotten them on Uncle Sam’s dime. Or viagra. How about let their medical care be between them and their doctors. Their medical insurance is a right they earn as part of their service.
My god, that cost taxpayers almost $0.02 a year
How much did the pentagon spend on the healthcare of troops who are active members of white supremacist groups?
the yearly budget for our military is over 680 billion dollars, by the way.
Failing to put in the tweet and headline the context of the BILLIONS Pentagon spent in same timeframe is journalistic malpractice that will incite transphobia. Delete this tweet
How much did they spend on viagra? How much did they spend on birth control? Trans soldiers have needs, too!
*tsk tsk* so much money that could have lined the pockets of weapons manufacturers
That's about $5k person. I am certain that the Army spent more than that on the birth of my daughter when I was in.
Now tell us the number for cisgender troops.
wow that's almost a thousandth of a percent of the total military budget for a single year
So 5 grand apiece? THE HUMANITY!!
Now do money spent on planes that don’t work
ok
How much have they spent on obesity? Smoking? Addiction? Viagra?
Drop in the bucket.
You should be ashamed of yourselves for buying into this framing, especially considering how tiny of a fraction of the defense budget that represents.
Here, let me fix this for you: Pentagon expenditures on transgender care are less than 1% of Pentagon healthcare costs, and less than 10% of what taxpayers have spent for Trump to play golf. That’s better.
That's a really misleading way to present that statistic, and anyone involved with this story should be ashamed.
Now do: How much does the military spend covering up sexual assaults, rape, sexual harassment, & domestic violence?
How much do they spend on Viagra and ED supplements?
What the fuck is wrong with you
Not even going to read this story. Sounds good. Should have spent more on our troops.
Good
That's surprisingly low. $8 million is NOTHING to our military.
This is $8,000,000 is 0.001% of DoD's annual budget.
Just wait until y’all get the bill for the F-35, DDG-1000, and CVN-78 programs.
that's like 1/100 of an F-35
How much do they spend on Viagra?
How many golf weekends is that?
That's all? They're not crying that they can't give it to the unaccountable private contractor's, for a little pocket change? After all, it's taxpayer money, that they can't account for, that's only a few trillion! Who cares about that!
They spend 10X that on viagra. Annual budget over $700 billion now and the 8 wars we are in will cost many trillions.
who gives a fuck you nosy weirdos
That's just slightly more than a single Abrams tank (we have 9000 of those). this is a non story.
So basically if Trump skips two weekends at Mar-a-Lago we are balanced back up?
$8 million bought 22,992 psychotherapy visits, 9,321 prescriptions for hormones and 161 surgical procedures. You'd never get that kind of bargain from the private insurance market. MedicareForAll
A drop in the bucket compared to what taxpayers have spent paying for Trump to play golf. That's up to $89
Now do erectile dysfunction.
How much did they spend on Viagra and ED pills? I will tell you: $84.24 million in 2018. Yor are diabolical in your bigotry.
So what They can’t get I’ll or something
$8 million in two years? That's got to be the smallest item on the Pentagon's books.
1/10th of what Trump has spent to go golfing.
That’s not even 2K per person, per year. Don’t really see what’s the issue here.
Is that supposed to seem like a lot? It's not.
If they redirect that money to build the wall they’ll have enough to buy ONE mile in about 12 years.
Now do the the things that have cost billions and never worked. We keep throwing money at the military to feel safe never asking for an accounting. Meanwhile our most precious commodity- boots on the ground soldiers are chewed up & spit out. How many die each & every day?
Your headline NEEDS to put this in perspective. $8 million over 3 years is $2.66MM per year. The DoD's budget is $686.1 BILLION per year. You're talking about 0.00039% of the military's annual budget.
that's 10% of the cost of one plane that doesn't work.
That's a couple trips for golf and fundraisers at Mar-a-Lago 😂
Cool you could buy 0.000008% of one F-35 with that money but no yeah go ahead tell me again what's the bigger waste of money.
What has been spent to treat cisgender troops during the same time period? Because that price seems totally reasonable.
I thought they had an extra $5 billion they weren’t really using that Trump can use for the wall? Seems like they can afford to give soldiers healthcare.
Now do Viagra expenditures! And pointless self-enriching golf trips!
Less than what you spend on boner pills.
They spend that on a bag of hammers which is interesting because you are as dumb as a bag of hammers for running this story
Cool, now do trumps golf trips
Cool. How much has it spent on unnecessary wars since say...2001?
An F-22 Raptor costs over $100 million each. The US has over 200 of them.
Wait, that's just like $5K per person. Who the f--- cares? How is that possibly news in the context of DoD spending?
The Pentagon could probably find that much in the couch cushions.
so maybe $5000 per troop? Just cut back on a few trips for Fat Donnie Two-Scoops to go to Mar-A-Lago to take bribes and we're covered. This is nothing but realDonaldTrump & vp being bigots.
That’s pretty cheap!
How much was trumps golf weekends in that same period of time?
why is this news? where's your breaking news on how much it costs the pentagon to treat erectile dysfunction?
A pittance. They put their life on the line, treat our soldiers!
That low?
shameful pittance
Really not that much money. Pentagon has wasted more funding not making up their minds over uniform design
Now do viagra.
Now let’s do Viagra!!
do the wars next
5K per person for medical. Sounds very reasonable.
$8 million out of a $756 billion budget? Who the hell cares?
Jesus add fucking context
And then there's this.... 'Department of Defense announced that Boeing had secured a $3.9 billion contract to build two new Air Force One planes.'
So almost 1 entire Trump golf weekend.
How much on the F35?
which is, not a lot
What’s your freaking point? How much has been spent on fighter jets and caging children and fake walls? Also, bad morale, low recruitment numbers and white supremists in their ranks. Our military is struggling. Thanks to the transgender folks who sign up. No way in hell I would!
Try reading the room
Also - United States is protected by 1500 transgender troops since 2016. Celebrate that!
Averaging less than $5,500 a piece? That seems like a complimentary number based on how medical costs are frequently inflated.
So.... $2,666 a person? Kinda cheap.
We have spent more in one year for Trump to golf at his own clubs.
And how much do they spend on viagra? 5x as much? Really!
Anyone who puts their life on the line to protect our country deserves their healthcare costs to be paid
So less than 1/100th of the cost of a jet whose main purpose seems to be murdering it's pilots in exotic ways?
The Pentagon couldn't even pass it's audit this last year. We have no clue what the actually spent on anything. To write this as a byline is fucking disgusting. Trans ♥️
...Aaaand they spent 40 million dollars on Viagra.
How much to treat erectile dysfunction and viagra?
That's litterally 0.00001%
So, $100 million less than we spent on golf for Trump
That's a drop in the bucket compared to what is spent on overseas bases, failed military hardware, and funding right-wing coups across the globe.
Cool, now talk about poisoning communities near bases with leaking tanks of flame retardant & how much it will cost to deal with it. Or wasting billions on the F-35 or hundreds of billions & thousands of lives for a bullshit war in Iraq.
Sounds good to me
That's like......... a really little bit lmao
Good.
Now do troops who smoke.
In the broader context of Pentagon's annual budget, this is a negligible amount far below the margin of error. This is the minimum those 1500 Americans who have risen to protect and serve our democracy deserve. The cost is no reason to do discriminate them
And?
wow, seems like a really good roi for a change
Americans spent 89 million on Trump playing golf since 2016. Would rather have used that to help more transgender troops.
That's it? Trump has spent more money shitting at Mar-a-Lago. Where's that outrage?
Good.
The President asked for $5 billion for a wall. Try harder.
So, like $5000 per person? That doesn’t seem like much.
Wow! 1,500 people were treated and for only a tenth of the cost of a single bomb! Incredible work, probably the most cost efficient thing the Pentagon does.
Isn’t that actually below estimates of what it would cost? And how does that compare to the cost treatment of non-transgender troops?
I wouldn’t use this paper to line a bird cage...
Fascinating.
$8 million is a drop in the military spending budget.
how much money have they spent treating cisgender troops? bet we'd save a lot more money by kicking them out instead
this isn't even news. its a hit piece so your boomer readers can froth at the mouth and buy more papers
And one F-35 costs 85 million. Your point?
wow so not much at all. thanks for sharing
Seems like a small price to pay for someone willing to put their lives on the line to defend the country but what do i know
Lmaoooo like that's a big amount of money to the pentagon? Nice phrasing. Really making a mountain out of a molehill on this one.
So $5333 per person. Remind me how much each F-35 costs again? OH and remind me how much their budget overall is? This story does nothing except further transphobia. You should be disgusting in yourselves for running this
Pretty sure military has a couple of multimillion dollar missiles
so yall hate trans people more than the f-35 eh?
That’s it
$$$$ for PEOPLE VS a F35 ..... I'll support the PEOPLE ANY DAY
How much on golf carts for the Secret Service when Trump golfs?
How much did the spend on the F35?
Now tell us how much the Military spent on the F-35. I can tell you right now there would be less people bitching.
A literal drop in the pool-sized bucket of defense spending. 0.01% of the defense budget. For nevessary medical care for a huge number of humans, Americans, soldiers.
Do you know how much they spend on a tanker plane tire
How much does a F-35 cost
Next do Erectile Disfunction pills!
How much did they spent on the plane that doesn't fly
That's not a lot of money. How much did the President spend to go golfing?
Cant we get cheaper soldiers
Why is taxpayers money being used for this? That’s a private issue, not a government issue.
Literally the price we pay for enabling mental illness
This comes across as transphobic rabble-rousing. I guarantee they spend way more on unnecessary cosmetic stuff for cis troops (like the labiaplasty they did for a friend in the Air Force) but you fail to get those numbers.
Crazy
Was it a military program which caused people to go trans?
They need to investigate chemistry and what brought that person here into this life, at least that's one angle I would investigate. Also environment of upbringing where one resides. Consider the possibility also that more than one Soul could be jammed in a single body
How much have they spent on viagra? $84 million.
I don't care if you want to attach a penis or cut one off. I don't want to pay for that. You can be gay, trans, bi queer whatever you want to call yourself. You can serve in our military. What you can't do is expect tax payers to fund your surgery. Start a go fund me.
And $30 million on Viagra
And we pay $4 million each time the motherfucker decides to play golf. So choices.
And they are vets just like any other and that only works out to $5300/vet. What happened to supporting our veterans? Transgender troops served their country; many in very dangerous situations. How does this compare to other healthcare resources? Viagra? Alcoholism? Obesity?
It doesn’t say what they’ve been treated for except for the 161 surgeries. So is it treatment for a broken leg and they are just breaking them out for stats or is it for psych? If so then what’s the num of non trans troops treated for psych? Be clearer.
Totally bullshit!! They are getting away with getting there free change over!
Y los veteranos....todo bien
Transgender join military for free surgery assignment free medicine and maintenance that’s a waste of money to be spending for that’s why Trump bans them they want to be gay or lesbian but can’t afford it. There’s so much more worth to pay for like Veterans who serve this country
Correction: Pentagon could possibly spend 0.0011% of its $716B budget...
Stop
Wondering what do they do with castrated 1500 penises. Poll: What do you think the Pentagon do with 1500 penises?
People cool with people joining the military for the sole purpose of getting free tuition but angry that these other people are getting the healthcare resources they want and needed? Even though they also paid their dues? To those angry I say fuck all the way off
Those who are willing to serve our country deserve any and all healthcare resources needed.
But yet we have veterans committing suicide 20 a day? The VA system in shambles in many cities?!! Something is wrong with this picture!
Who wrote it?
Stop wasting my tax money on people with scrwedup minds and body's.
With all the wounded fighting for the USA, suffering during/after service, to do cosmetic surgery for a few who decide to let the tax payer pay for them is sad. Get it done first, then enlist. Sounds to me as if they decide afterwards from this post here. Am I wrong? Let me know?
What happened to support our troops. Id rather have a brave transgender serving beside me, than a person who is judging them. I don't care what they have going on in that arena. If you are imagining genitals and who has what, you can't do your jobs. Its their business not mine
M to F or F to M - if it is the former, $8M is far too much when all you really need is a pair of scissors!
Pathetic
What a waste of public resources..
this is 0.001% of the military budget.
treat em how?
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