I know it’s not a perfect analogy, and may even obfuscate some important things. Still, I think it helps to clarify things a little bit…
Background: a new study says that lack of health insurance contributes to 44,789 deaths in this country every year.
So: if terrorists were killing 45,000 people in America every year, who would even think it remotely reasonable to suggest that it wouldn’t be worth spending $90 billion dollars a year to fight them?
I’ll also point out that fighting a ‘war on terror’ is the sort of thing that does very little to actually save lives, while even a moderately good health reform bill will go a pretty long way toward reducing the number of preventable deaths in the statistic above.