Yeah, but how many brown children can it kill?

The feds give the states more than $16b per year to build and run shitty, custom made IT systems for their Medicaid programs. It's basically a subsidy to IT companies. There are thousands of examples like this, where spending money on fundamental science is clearly a better investment.

I was kind of thinking that $22 billion really doesn’t seem like that much money for a project like this.