Is there an easy way to solve the budget deficit and healthcare crisis?

There is an effective way to address the US budget deficit and deal with the healthcare crisis at the same time. The problem is, it would require a level of political strength that no one in Washington appears to have.

Healthcare costs continue to rise because insurance companies looking to make a profit by cherry-picking who and what they will cover are controlling everything from legislation to pricing. Nowhere else in the civilized world is this allowed to happen except in America.

Escalating healthcare costs are driving up the federal deficit. However, the single payer healthcare system that conservatives are fighting would go a long way toward stabilizing costs. In a Medicare for all scenario, the negotiating power of the US government to stabilize costs would dramatically increase. Medicare already has set fees in place for what they will pay doctors and hospitals.

In a more perfect world, lobbyists would not be running America by writing their own legislation and throwing money at the candidates that they believe will then force them into law. And that is exactly why the United States may never enact the legislation needed to solve both the budget deficit crisis and healthcare crisis, which are very much related and easier to fix than most politicians are willing to admit.