Health care directly impacts every person, plus those yet unborn, and no one can deny that our health care system is highly flawed and far less than it could or should be. While at the same time over 2 billion dollars was spent to see if there is any trace of life on Mars.

Question: Why hasn't there been an equal amount of concentrated effort to improve the quality of health care as has been used in successfully landing a highly sophisticated engineering marvel on a planet 154 million miles from earth?

Our health care system, while not a mystery of the universe, is composed of two equally important aspects: How to pay for health care after-the-fact and the health care delivery system. People (you & I) with medical problems first enter that system through the health care delivery system and that aspect of our health care system is universally recognized to be "broken". But while the process of how to pay for health care is continuously and contentiously being debated, the health care delivery system portion of that problem receives as much attention as a fourth place finisher in an Olympic event.

Congress and the federal government control and dictate how to pay for health care after-the-fact, while at the same time every state is individually responsible for the creation and administration of their portion of the health care delivery system. What people seem to miss in that dual responsibility of health care is that change may enable the saving of money in how to pay for health care, BUT change in the health care delivery system can save both lives and money. Perhaps our health care priorities have gotten lost in the rhetorical tsunami of RomneyCare and ObamaCare.

Absolutes regarding our nation's health care system:

It will reach out and grab you and your loved ones.

It is far less than it could or should be.

State responsibility for their part of the delivery system must be recognized.

Both aspects of that system demand equal consideration.

No facet of our society has received less detailed consideration of all its aspects.

Curiosity demonstrates, as have so many other great national achievements, what this nation is capable of doing – When & If – a similar, concentrated effort is orchestrated with a clear goal. It is long past time to put as much, if not more, effort into making our nation's health care system (both aspects), far better as has been made in successfully landing Curiosity safely on Mars Think of the benefits to all if only our health care delivery system received as much effort as Curiosity required.