I think some form of Universal health care, like the expansion of medicaid is something the US should look at to supplement the current private industry health care. There are far more benefits to private health care than universal health care. With private health insurance, you get more than the essential services, no waiting lists and you have more options for treatment. Canada total expenditure on health per capita as GNP is 9.7% vs 15.2% in the US with no universal health care. 21.8% of government expenditure vs 17.5 for Canada goes to Health Care.

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Something has to be done to control the escalating costs on health care. It's not a problem to ignore and every avenue for a solution should be looked at. Personal responsiblity for health is a good start, but people need to be more inclined to go to the doctors in order to prevent 30,000 surgeries. Policies should be revised so the system becomes less complicated due to overwhelming regulation.