As the labyrinth of healthcare gets more and more complex more and more opinions are formed, 'we pay too much for care' 'we pay a good amount for the quality of care that we get' 'our care is the best in the world' 'our quality of care is sub par in even the poorest of countries' etc. With so many diametrically opposed viewpoints with seemingly legitimate backing it is nearly impossible to really understand what is going on. Don't feel overwhelmed, just take in as much information as you can and use reliable sources with viable solutions to increase your understanding. That being said, I would like to bring up an article that i found at the Baltimore Chronicle's webpage that covers the most common accusations of Americas healthcare system. This article is based on the extremely high prices of American healthcare, we are 1.5 times more expensive than the second most expensive country, Norway. According to this article our cost is so high because of many taxes that we pay our doctors and surgeons as well as the inflation of healthcare costs in general, they started high and are only getting higher. This is definitely a problem with American health care if you want everyone to receive quality care and must be fixed in order to treat our growing population. Most people assume that there is a relationship between price and quality (as price goes up so does quality and vice versa). However, Dr. Holtzman disagrees claiming that there is a way to decrease costas and increase quality of care by eliminating pecuniary taxes paid to doctors and increasing primary care. Once again, it is up to you, the reader, to determine if this is a valid claim. The catch-22 is that not doing anything with our healthcare system could cause it to break down, but doing something to completely reform it may have the same effect. While Dr. Holtzman may be on to something and I believe that if there is any way to do what he claims is possible then it should be done post haste, I am highly skeptical of this claim because it goes against one of the most basic economic relationships, that of cost and quality.