Health care is rising because it can! Just like every other facet anymore people will push to the limit every opportunity and freedom and the people that need the care aren't any better. Rather than put a little time into taking care of themselves they would rather waddle into the doctor's office and wait for some get healthy quick meds rather than the veggie section of the food store where they can spend their food stamps. Exploitation is all over the place, $230 for an hour massage billed to the insurance company or $90 if you pay yourself, $90 to talk with a dentist for 3 minutes, $700 dollars for a blood test, hundreds to have someone look at a wart and I'm sure that everybody has a story about medicare. Anyhow it all boils down to "Because they can"