I have absolutely no doubt that poor dietary decisions drive up the price of health care costs. I also agree that better information (yes, even including home economics courses someone earlier mentioned) could help. I am not so sure how to address such challenges. What seems likely to me is that in our current environment, it looks like democrats are going to let republicans 'own' whatever healthcare solutions come about before 2018.  With this in mind, what are some solutions that might be politically feasible before then? I will throw out a few. Some of these I am not even sure are possible due to the nature of reconciliation versus more politically difficult passage, but I'll start with two - Get rid of the mandate (get it down to $0 penalty for no coverage). - I think the parliamentarian has said this is doable. Second, 

require price transparency for any provider of health care. Pretty sure this would not be covered by reconciliation, but it might be an exception to other policies democrats would vote against. 

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