How do we get Highest Quality AND Affordable anything?

I just returned from another in a seemingly endless series of panels and seminars that address the upcoming Obama Care implementation. One phrase that I kept hearing was that our goal is to achieve “high quality health care at the lowest possible cost.” But is that not the same goal for everything we purchase, whether it is computers, cell phones, automobiles, homes, food, or anything else? With respect to all the items on the list, except for health care, we have achieved this goal through the free enterprise system and competition.

Why do we think that high quality and affordable health care is an exception and will be achieved through a government run program? It will not. We need to go back to a system that we know has worked and that has made us the richest nation in the world. The answer to high quality and affordable health care lies in the free market, not in Washington DC.