There are many ways to reduce the cost of healthcare. Some suggestions:

1: Repeal the "Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973" - introduced in the Senate by Edward Kennedy (D) passed in Senate and House (Democrat majority) and signed by Republican Nixon (Democrat majority would have overrode his veto). It turned health providers into profit machines.

2: Require providers to display their prices, currently hidden, no competition.

3: Put all gov. employees on a single payer (like Medicare). Currently every major government office has their own budget for healthcare for their employees. That total is in the billions, and each department makes seperate deals with insurance companies - so many companies/people doing the same thing in different ways. Extremely wasteful and redundant!

If #3 works and saves $ (it will) then offer it to everyone, not by mandate. It would be important that Medicare pay only non-profit providers!