What is the health care solution?!

What is the health care solution?

I am not a senior citizen, have private health insurance, and still find my health care costs unaffordable. I only go to the doctor when I'm ill and not for superficial reasons.

What's the solution? Do doctor's and hospitals charge too much? I don't want government-run health care.

Also, old people take too many damn drugs. Enough already.

The best solution would be for our government to adopt the same kind of policies that other countries have with health care. There is no private insurance or HMO's. Everyone has insurance and the government puts a cap on the price of medications. The only down fall is that with some surgeries you may have to wait up to 6 months to have them done but these are not emergency surgeries. They are knee and hip replacements or similar type surgeries. This would take care of the over price insurance premiums and make health care available to everyone no matter what the income level. The money to pay for it comes from taxes on luxury items that people purchase. That way the poor are not getting punished for being poor and the people who can afford it are the ones mainly paying. The biggest problem is that our government has not taken this kind of approach and probably won't. As to the elderly being over medicated I totally agree. I'm a long term care nurse and give at least 20 different medications to the majority of the residents. It's one thing if it's a life sustaining med but for the most part they are not.