1. Tort reform. Eliminate the large settlements, force arbitration, and set a maximum allowable amount that a doctor could be sued. Eliminate bad doctors, and create subsidized insurance pools. When 40% of someones income goes to insurance, cost of medical care will never be contained.

2. Insurance payment reform. When a $20,000 bill gets settled for $2000 the system has already failed. First because the bill is so high and second because the payment is so low. Attack the cost side with number 1, attack the income side here and provide reasonable reimbursement for services provided.

3. Education reform. Help bright young people pay for college and medical school with the provision that they spend X number of years as a GP. Most doctors who graduate today will not become general practitioners. Not enough money to be made to pay for their education. So incentives to get doctors in these roles is needed. More nurse practitioners as well. Need to pay them more so they get to this role. Without addressing this issue we will have rationing of health care weather you can afford it or not.

4. Drug cost reform. It costs to much to develop a drug today. To much testing, the maintaining of a validated environment, meeting FDA rules, time from development to on the shelf, and also part of tort reform.

5. 50 million without insurance does need to be resolved. However if you are here "illegal", we need a different solution. It is not up to the American tax payer to take care of someone who broke our laws. If you are here legally and do not have insurance then we do need to create some sort of basic care and make it available at an affordable price to those in need. Clinics, pro bono work, generic drugs, some way to care for those in need.

6. Keep the government out of the solution except for these 5 things. A government run system will fail worse then the current system. I have not heard a single politician even mention tort reform and to me that is the number one problem.