[njbchbum]

The cost of healthcare in America is not an independent factor. It is significantly impacted by a litigious society, the cost of lawsuits aganist medical facilities and personnel as well as the costs associated with pharmaceutical and therapeutic care and of malpractice insurance. Asking America's government to step in and step up to address the matrix of all of those factors in a way that would design a comprehensive plan to address each and all of those factors equitably and generate a fiscally sound and affordable healthcare-for-all program/policy is unrealistic. An economy based on the permissiveness of deficit spending is as solid as a house built on sand.