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Now that I have read the two pages I will add this to the discussion:
A common theme here is the high cost of healthcare, and that the government needs to do something about it. The reality of the matter is that American healthcare (I can't speak to any other nations, but economics work essentially the same everywhere) was affordable before the government put it's heavy hand into the industry. Healthcare should be treated like every other industry, let the free market do what it does, and the only government involvement should be arbitration of disputes, and even that is debatable.
I'm not computer savvy, and have never figured out how to post pictures here, but there is a chart out there showing inflation of various products, and the trend you'll find is the items that are most unregulated (electronics, etc.) have greatly fallen in price, while simultaneously rising in quality and extravagance. there are products that have some regulations in place, but not too crazy that have stayed pretty much static in price while quality has improved (new cars), and then there is healthcare, probably the most heavily regulated industry in America, and low-and-behold the prices have gone through the roof, and some would argue certain aspects of the quality (think nurse: patient; doctor: patient ratios) have fallen.
Following the scientific method, we see that adding more government causes prices to climb, and quality to fall, relative to each other. So the obvious solution is to reduce the government involvement to bring prices down.
(Cue Litesong: something something REPUBLICANS unintelligible)
Couple edits for grammar...sorry.
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