How about getting rid of the health mandates put into Obamacare that requires coverages like pregnancy coverage for men! Scrap it all and let people decide what coverage they want to pay for. Get rid of subsidies and let the free market decide what is needed for them and/or their family.

Eliminate ACA/Obamacare subsidies and it’s 2,000+ pages of unnecessary mandates.

Listen to RFK Jr and GET HEALTHIER AND STRONGER!!!

Most health problems and costs are due to bad lifestyle choices, mostly being overweight and worse, morbidly obese! Our bones and organs are not meant to deal with fat overload. Heart, lungs, joints all develop chronic diseases. People must EAT MUCH LESS AND MOVE MUCH MORE. Lose weight in that way, no cheating with costly dangerous drugs to become dependent upon.

A large percentage of the cost of medical care is a byproduct of the waste and fraud being inflicted and care for non citizens. Congress should task the newly identified Fraud Committee with developing a process that would ensure money being disseminated is representative of actual medical care. By default once this fraud is stopped, the costs should be less and the savings passed down to Medicare recipients through a reduction of costs for the Medicare Insurance program that individuals must pay.

I believe all three previous comments are thoughtful and precise. I would like to add two additional concerns from nurses in my family. Hospital coasts are driven up by many factors. One, major cost in our larger metropolitan cities is the unhoused and drug dependent citizens. President Trump has the right approach to getting the drugs off our streets and out of the mouths & veins of our families & friends. President Trump is taking profound steps to get drugs off of our streets. These are major events taking place in our lifetimes. We need to back him in this endeavor! Two, , we have emigrants flying into the US and bringing their sick family members straight to our hospital Emergency Rooms. I have no idea how to fix this second problem. I hope y’all have some ideas. I hope we can accomplish repairing our health care system with compassion as we, as a people, have always only wanted the best for all people. A third problem is the over use of our ER’s. We have established numerous urgent care centers that work really well, if only more people would take advantage of them. This would facilitate the usage of ER’s for what they were intended to be, emergencies.

Medicare deduction from SS for retired folks has jumped every year & costs of supplemental plans have also increased dramatically...awful! Reports say the elderly population will outnumber other age groups shortly, to add to the problem. More pressure on pharm companies will help + rigorous fraud detection would be good, but all the Fed employee cuts hampering that effort! I'd bet health, insurance & budget EXPERTS could assist if only our elected (and well paid with free coverage!) House & Senate members would knuckle down, stop bickering on Party lines & utilize the expertise we know are out there.

Government is the cause of high health care costs, not the solution. Entire sectors of the economy have aligned to feed off of this (and every other) massively taxpayer subsidized system.

You are the patient, but the government is the customer, setting the prices, making the rules, and propping up the system.

In 1965, with the advent of Medicare and Medicaid, government went into the business of paying for so-called healthcare. "By 1990...total hospital expenditures were more than six times those originally estimated in 1965." (see D.A. Hyman's "Medicare Meets Mephistopheles").

The Affordable Care Act(2014), accelerated the expansion of government takeover, further reducing private alternatives. (Lincoln said: "I do not expect the house to fall–but I do expect it will cease to be divided...It will become all one thing or all the other.")

Consider the words of Peter Drucker: "We would most certainly not permit authority over people if we know how to obtain without it the performance for the sake of which we maintain the institution." and "Economic results, which in a business are determining factors, are only limitations and restraints in other organizations."

He means that the ship of state, cushioned from economic realities by taxation and subsidy, can strike an iceberg and everyone aboard believe that submerging serves the greater good.

Indeed, says Drucker, "the inability to stop doing anything is the central degenerative disease of government.