Health care costs are rising rapidly in Canada, too.
Maybe people keep looking at the wrong end of the stick? If you subsidize something, the price goes up. This is a law of economics. Look at college education.
There is a direct connection between the cost of medical care and the graph I posted earlier, and post here again:
There are a number of solutions for this. The problem is that a large segment of our political leadership refuses to accept or even consider any solution other than total Federal control of the health care system. Even Canada's system is provincial and decentralized.