The Rate of Hospitals Compared to Weapons Factories?

[Cyberwave]

I'm just wondering if there is any known information on something such as "the rate of hospitals being built in the US compared to the rate of arms factories," or anything similar to this. Perhaps ratios of "hospitals:arms factories," anything like that.

[Ocean Seal]

I'm not sure how many arms factories are built but I don't think that your ratio would be showing much as hospitals and arms factories would vary in size. And what would it mean that for every hospital there are two arms factories. Without context I don't think that it would help much.

I found this link rather helpful regarding the United States arms trade and how it pulls in about 166 billion in profits for the United States and how corporate welfare is hidden inside.
http://www.globalissues.org/article/74/the-arms-trade-is-big-business


This is another helpful image for US military spending.

http://www.warresisters.org/pages/images/pieFY09.gif
http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm

In effect the government spends more on its military than all other things combined.
54% and $1,449 billion
And also the majority of the hospitals in the United States are private so there isn't much spent in that direction. Its about 17% of the GDP though because its rather inefficient. As somewhat of a surprise the US spends a lot on health care yet the several markers associated with good health are rather low.

I would say that based on this the ratio is about 3:1 in terms of spending not on physical arms factories.

[miltonwasfried...man]

Both arm factories and hospitals are privately owned businesses in the USA. So it's not like a lot of hospitals really help the poor who can't afford or qualify for insurance. But I wouldn't doubt an increase in arms production with all the conflict the Americans are involved in and hospitals for that matter with the increase in obesity and pollutants in the environment. Either or, these private companies will never cure the sick or make peace because their bottom lines depend on illness and war.