Based on your own family's experience, what do you think we should do to improve health care in America?

1. Keep the government as far away from it as possible. I am eligible for treatment at VA health care facilities, but avoid them like the plague.

2. Encourage more use of generic medications to bring down the cost of prescriptions.

3. Encourage subsidies for medical students to increase the supply of doctors who are American by birth. The subsidies could come from hospitals, communities or anyone in the health industry. My current doctor is Nigerian. I have had two from India, one from Mexico and several from America. All have been good doctors, but I think we would be better served not having to import medical professionals.

4. Review malpractice cases and claims to keep good doctors and facilities from being hassled by frivolous lawsuits. Some doctors should be forced out of the profession, but many should not.

First you must get people to stop using the ER for every cold or flu they get. Then open up insurance companies so that they can trade across state lines, Then take personal responsibility for the bills you owe. Did I forget, DO NOT shove a national health care bill down the throats of every person in America. Oh sorry, there are a few steps to true change without costing the people of America billions or trillions more than they are paying now.

Get the lawyers out of it as much as possible and quit giving free health care to illegals. That would clear up about 2/3's of the problem.

I've always gotten very good health care when I chose the practitioner and I paid for it.

When I've relied on a third party to tell me whom I could go to and what I could have done, results were not as good. Better than nothing, but not as good.

Practice preventative medicine, versus reactive treatment.

Make it less expensive. Getting the government out of the way would help.