I understood the point, just answering the question.
There may or may not be a need to replace Marine One helicopters by 2022, when the current ones will be 35 years old. The problem seems to be the government’s inability to properly balance risk, cost and mission in procurement. Therefore it drives the costs to the point where things become unaffordable. This is the case with military hardware as well as social programs (i.e. ACA).
In a business management determines the target cost per unit and cost drives the design. Someone in the organization prioritizes the features and the project manager is charged with getting as many features included as possible for the target budget. It seems the government determines what it wants and then lets the cost be what it is going to be. We cannot afford to continue designing programs this way, whether they be military hardware or social programs but no one in Congress, the bureaucracy, or the executive branch will do their jobs and bring reality into the spending equation.
If it was up to me I would spend the money on the VA long before new choppers for the potus.