Cost of The War - wouldn't you rather have health care?

It is hard to get my head around the figures that are published about how much the War in Iraq is costing. At the end of 2006, BEFORE the surge, the total cost to America was somewhere between $750 billion (conservative estimate) and $1.2 trillion. I don't know what a trillion is. It's like counting grains of sand or stars in the sky. But I do know what treating disease costs and the comparisons