The cost of health care and insurance continues to increase at an unsustainable rate as the baby boomers retire. Canada and the vast majority of industrialized nations save more than half of what we spend per person on health care, and in return they get longer lifespans (theirs increased 11 years since 1970 while ours increased only 5), less infant mortality, and more money to spend on other needs.
Demand single payer health care--Medicare for All--now!
More info:
http://lanekenworthy.net/2011/07/10/americas-inefficient-health-care-sys...
http://www.pnhp.org/facts/single_payer_system_cost.php
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/5/20
http://www.healthcare-now.org/a-difficult-pill-to-swallow
http://pnhp.org/blog/2011/09/23/u-s-still-the-worst-on-amenable-mortality