Given the triple-decker fecal Dagwood sandwich that is ObamaCare, even the feckless plans the Republicans have put forward are an improvement. But of course, we can do better. It won't happen until we all demand the politicians on both sides quit using health care as a political football, both sides trying to leverage more votes for their side and generate more power for Washington, DC by capturing one fifth of our entire  economy and doling it back out to us at their discretion.

$1 trillion is spent on 9 of the top 10 causes of illness. All 9 of those causes are due to lifestyle choices, not bad luck, genetics or accidents. Choices like smoking, drinking, overeating or eating fatty foods, taking drugs, or having unprotected sex with someone not your spouse. Until we have a system that encourages healthy choices and requires financial responsibility for unhealthy choices, costs will rise as will efforts to force someone else to pay for our unhealthy choices.