A whole bunch of factors play into the high medical costs. In my view they happened for several reasons: first, the MAM has licensing control over medical schools and will not allow any more; to this day 100,000 academically qualified student applicants are rejected from medical schools annually due only to lack of space. This was artificially constructed.

Second, against the restricted supply of doctors is the massive population increase competing for these medical services. Third, people are getting older and require more medical services. Fourth, most people with illnesses have those due to self inflicted behavior problems like eating unhealthy foods in excess.

Within these reasons lays the answer. The only factor we can't fix is the aging variable: the rest we can do something about. Removing AMAs government monopoly of the medical industry would be a great first step.