It is of utmost importance that quality health care be affordable and easily accessible. This is why some politicians have proposed government programs to provide health care benefits for those who cannot afford or maintain medical insurance via other ways. These endeavors come on top of taxpayer-subsidized benefits in the form of Medicaid and Medicare.

Todays crisis of inaccessible and unaffordable health care is caused by many factors. Laws pertaining to the practice of medicine should be less regulated and more flexible, medical care costs should be lower. We are in a desperate need for the reformation of our health care policy aimed towards the principle of consumer-oriented health care. We should eliminate regulations mandating insurance coverage. Furthermore, we should put an end to regulations excessively restricting competition within the health care industry and limiting access to insurance outside the state lines.

Medicare and Medicaid have become hard to sustain and they must be modified so as to add economical incentives, stress patient choice and concentrate on the truly needy. Furthermore, market ethics and philosophy must be practiced to bring about better quality and cost-effective health care.

Nowadays, many complex health care problems arise and the solution is not contained in socialized medicine. Countries that have limited medical systems to a national level inevitably ration care through the political system; in these countries costs are decreased by limiting or denying the needed health care.