Health care costs are too high because of government, and incomes are too low because of government.  Think about your paycheck for a moment ...

Using rounded estimates for the sake of simple example, let's say you make $100 per week.  It costs your employer about $112 per week to employ you, yet your take-home pay is only about $70.  Boy, that missing $42 (or 42% of your pay) sure seems to be the single biggest problem Americans face today in my mind.

Health care is the most government-regulated industry outside education (hmmm, a correlation of failure?).  Regulation = bureaucracy = increased costs.  So the real health care problem is 2-fold:

1. The government takes too much of a person's income.

2. The government creates too many additional health care costs.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. - George Washington, America's first president.