2. The AMA shouldn't restrict the number of doctors entering the profession--supply and demand...the more doctors, more price competition

Paying for treatment and procedures only creates incentives to offer more treatment and procedures--because that is how people make money in our current system.

If we paid doctors for the duration that one remains healthy, that is when healthcare costs would drop, and we would be a much, much healthier people.

Also, the us government also has to be willing to take on the big food companies and stop providing incentives like crop insurance to keep the price of corn artificially low (high fructose corn syrup)

It is insane that a highly mechanized product like a Twinkie is cheaper than carrots (pulling roots out of the ground), but cheap, sugary foods and poor diet ultimately lead to poor health, particularly in the lower income brackets---who go to the ER for health care.

A complex problem and as long as corporations have the influence they do in the US government, nothing will change.

So, in a nutshell, we are basically screwed.