Health care premiums in the U.S. are escalating from twelve to twenty percent a year-- with no end in sight. The impact of those cost increases on both employers and employees will be huge. Workers will see a direct cut in their take-home pay. Millions will lose health insurance coverage completely. Senior citizens on fixed incomes will be hit particularly hard, as premiums for their Medicare supplement plans and prescription drug costs climb. Frustrated and angry, people will soon be demanding a solution from their elected officials, and, for the first time in recent memory, the size of our...

We cannot afford to spend as much money as we spend today on health care. Health care costs are destroying state and federal budgets and health care costs are driving American families into financial collapse. We spend twice as much money on care as the rest of the world's industrialized nations. Most of those countries get better care, faster care and more care than we do-and they all spend a lot less money in the process. Health care saves lives. That is wonderful. Health care costs can impair the financial functioning for the lives that are saved. That is clearly not wonderful. It isn't...