The real stat is 8 million people get subsidies at an average cost of $6300 per annum. So closer to $50 billion per year total, some of which prevents future ER costs by making preventative care available.

Meanwhile, we’ve spent $400 billion or more every year on our endless homicide sprees in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. We should spend more on our own country, less on endless wars that are lost causes anyway.