Commentary: Make health care affordable

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WASHINGTON (CNN) — Americans want, deserve and demand health care reform.

Wednesday, I and my Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives are unveiling common sense health care reforms that focus on increasing the affordability, accessibility and availability of quality health care.

Our plan will lower costs, make health care more convenient for patients and improve quality at a price our country can afford.

Our chief concern is making health care affordable for all Americans. To do so, we believe in reforming before spending. The system now is so complex and unwieldy that billions of dollars are wasted every year. In fact, Americans pay more for their health care per person than anyone else in the world; twice what the Canadians do and two-and-a-half times what the British spend. It makes no sense.