Like so many things that are broken in America, it's not one thing that's to blame - it's multiple: People lives longer; more illness we can treat; growing adm

Like so many things that are broken in America, it's not one thing that's to blame - it's multiple: People lives longer; more illness we can treat; growing administration; new expensive technology; few doctors; price gouging; anti-competitive behavior; malpractice lawsuits; lack of preventative care; uninsured bumping in and out of emergency rooms; and so on... Some of these are successfully solved by most western countries. Some of them are quite plausibly not solvable. As we have more technology and treatments to keep people alive, cost will necessarily go up.