Public health care spending for example is overall much larger than defense, yet on that graph it is virtually non existent.
Are you sure about that? Last I heard, America is spending more on their military than the whole rest of the world put together... "Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
Umm, yes. Public sector health care spending is about 7% of GDP, defense is about 4%.