Health care, I wonder when…..

[Yogi]

I wonder with the rise in the cost of health care and those with out any.

http://www.kff.org/insurance/chcm090904nr.cfm

Survey Shows Private Health Insurance Premiums Rose 11.2% in 2004

Premiums Increased at Five Times The Rate of Growth in Workers’ Earnings and Inflation

About Five Million Fewer Workers Covered By Their Own Employer’s Health Insurance Since 2001


How long will it be before we will start to see people in the streets protesting for health care the way we are for immigration reform?

[Kutjara]

1. I reckon...

...when Bird Flu hits. But of course, by then, it will be too late.

[Warpy]

2. Housing and healthcare have shown us the real inflation rate

meaning what it would have been had corporations not sent all our jobs overseas.

Housing and healthcare are the two things made entirely in the US.

Think about it. Offshoring has allowed the Feds to kid you into thinking there hasn't been infaltion over the last 25 years.

Now, after 25 years of flat wages, you can't afford to go to a doctor when you're sick unless you've got insurance.

The issue is WAGES. Any Democrat who doesn't campaign on it is a fool.

[liberalmike27]

3. If

you are going to sell your house, you'd better do it in the next few years cause that bubble is going to break, and a lot of people who got into the "flipping" business are going to get the same shaft that those who entered the market in the late nineties got.

[Warpy]

4. Nah, I'd still have to live somewhere

I bought my place 10 years ago and am in a position to pay it off. I really don't give a rip about that 140% paper profit.

If I'd bought within the last 2 years, though, I'd be looking for a way to cash out. I'd advertise at 5% below market value and be prepared to sell for 10% below market value, just to get out from under what will turn out to be a negative cash value vs. mortgage debt situation. Unless my PITI happened to be less than the prevailing rents, I'd unload.

I'd cheerfully go back to living in a trailer in that circumstance. Or even an apartment.