As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.
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Healthcare costs are rising, and not just Medicare and Medicaid, but healthcare in general.
Looking at affordable health care, I think it is important that we look not only at prescription drugs, but also make sure that there is a major focus on health care.
Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy.
If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.
A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.
Health care should be affordable for everyone.
I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.
Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers are.
We really do have to get at the underlying question of health-care costs.
Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just slowed their rate of increase) by improving medical services. They've lowered costs only by cutting or rationing them.
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