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High hospital prices are a leading driver of high and rising costs in the U.S. health care system, resulting in insurance premium growth that outpaces the growth in wages and inflation. In particular, the cost of hospital care accounts for one-third of all U.S. health care expenditures. On average, hospitals command prices in the commercial market that are more than twice as high as Medicare, with some hospitals charging three or four times as much. High hospital prices have been fueled by a number of factors, including increasing market consolidation and “must-have” hospitals flexing the...

0 done and in new jersey with a democratic legislature got them done in a bipartisan way. what i was saying on tuesday night is that you can govern with the principles that i have reforming tenure, cutting budgets. we spend less in fiscal 14 than we spent in fiscal 08 in actual dollars. we did this in a bipartisan way working across the aisle and getting things done. that's what people in new jersey want. i think the election results show from last tuesday and that's what people across the country i think want as well. >> governor if, and i know it's an if, you do run for president you're firs...