I absolutely believe technology can help to reduce health care costs. The realm of technology is so vast that researchers, scientists, and engineers are bound to produce products that will not only reduce the cost of medical care in general but also the cost of procedures that will become increasingly less advanced as our technological abilities increase. Think about history for a second--in the early 1900s, a small stab wound could very well result in death. Just within a century, our technology has advanced in such a way that gashes, deep scrapes, and other "cuts" to our bodies can easily be prepared by stitching, a procedure that would have been much more time consuming and dangerous years ago. In such a short time, our methods of medical care have become increasingly safer and much less critical. This leads me to believe that in another hundred years, there is no telling what new technology can do. As new methods arise, procedural costs decrease greatly and as a result, health care will become more affordable and more accessible to people and families of more difficult socioeconomic situations.