Sad Faces All Around: Health, Housing and Losing Jobs

Health care costs have increased significantly over the past year. Way higher than wages. This has caused our current crisis in the Health Care industry. This is not to say that the Real Estate Industry didn’t have anything to do with this, as when house prices start spinning out of control and debt soars high, every other industry takes a hit. So now we are on the cusp of a new decision; HealthCareReform: fix the old system and allow it to survive, changing what needs to be changed, or wipe it out by making pretty much everything government controlled. Obama at the center, the country taking sides even more strongly than before…Kind of scary.

In my opinion one of the problems I have seen related to costs is the cost requested by hospitals and doctors for procedures. It almost doesn’t seem standardized, or if it is, it is appraised at too high of a value. If we could get those costs down, then Health Insurance companies wouldn’t t have to charge so much. Then again, with house prices the way they are, it’s kind of hard to justify lowering the amount made by anyone.

This is such a hard decision and it will affect many. Imagine how many will be unemployed if we get rid of private insurance?