“the cost of medicine”
If you can cut the cost even 5%, Aetna will be glad to have met you.
Costs cannot bereduced in a government mandated system. The market will reduce prices. The action of the market, hampered as it is can be seen at many a doctor’s office- offer to pay cash for a lower price. Go offshore now and pay for your bypass plus airfare and a nice hotel for much less than the operation is priced at in the USA in a modern and probably safer facility. The doctors you will meet there are often the ones who are even now fleeing the American mess and who have already fled the British and Canadian horrors, the best of the bunch.