1) Soft-tissue damages need to be capped. Since "National Health Care" will do the long term care... that rules out that cost.

2) Device manufacturers need to be hurt horribly. Most "machines" used in each room... like the multi-function (all in one heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, oxygen levels, ekg...etc) devices, many cost less than $500 for the manufacturer to deliver it including delivery costs. Yet many of those devices cost upwards of $30,000. Many service contracts are ~ 1/4 to 1/3 the cost of the device new. Refurbed devices cost even less to round trip and are provided to replaced failed/problematic machines. Considering some really large hospitals have thousands of these devices... the cost is considerable.

3) Pharma... lets just say that recently they have made all "cures" 3-5 times more expensive... because they can. Also upping the costs of regimens by a lot. As well as "standard" long term medications... claiming "increasing costs to produce". Many of these reasons are pure and utter bullshit.

4) Health Insurance "Industry" needs to be turned into a break even kind of thing without the stupid loopholes. Forcing it to be health care not sick care and make it the primary reason to exist is to keep people healthy not reduce costs.

Then and ONLY then will our healthcare system be fixed.