This may sound a lot like those ads for charities that makeyou change the channel and feel bad about doing so, but do you know how much a singledose of the measles vaccine costs? Amere fifteen cents. For the lack of enoughfifteen-cent measles shots, a hundred thousand children die each year in India. Fortunately, people are trying to vaccinatemore children and solve this problem. The Measles Initiative, a partnership including the UN, charities, andhealth organizations, has already succeeded in reducing the global measles rateby 39%. To reduce the measles rate by90%, they say they'd need $479 million, only $147 million of which has comeinto their hands.
Which brings me to the price of the Iraq War.
