Public Option "too expensive?"

Current U.S. health care costs: surpassed $2 trillion in 2006 and is increasing 9-10% per year.
* FY2003 Supplemental: Operation Iraqi Freedom: Passed April 2003; Total $78.5 billion, $54.4 billion Iraq War
* FY2004 Supplemental: Iraq and Afghanistan Ongoing Operations/Reconstruction: Passed November 2003; Total $87.5 billion, $70.6 billion Iraq War
* FY2004 DoD Budget Amendment: $25 Emergency Reserve Fund (Iraq Freedom Fund): Passed July 2004, Total $25 billion, $21.5 billion (estimated) Iraq War
* FY2005 Emergency Supplemental: Operations in the War on Terror; Activities in Afghanistan; Tsunami Relief: Passed April 2005, Total $82 billion, $58 billion (estimated) Iraq War
* FY2006 Department of Defense appropriations: Total $50 billion, $40 billion (estimated) Iraq War.
* FY2006 Emergency Supplemental: Operations Global War on Terror; Activities in Iraq & Afghanistan: Passed February 2006, Total $72.4 billion, $60 billion (estimated) Iraq War
* FY2007 Department of Defense appropriations: $70 billion(estimated) for Iraq War-related costs[5][6]
* FY2007 Emergency Supplemental (proposed) $100 billion
* FY2008 Bush administration has proposed around $190 billion for the Iraq War and Afghanistan[7]
* FY2009 Obama administration has proposed around $130 billion in additional funding for the Iraq War and Afghanistan.[8]

And they're balking at spending an estimated $1 trillion over the next 10 years to reform health care. (This is the Congressional Budget Office's estimate of the draft bill released by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, which does not include a public option and would leave an estimated 35 million uninsured.)