CRISIS IN OUR ECONOMY………..WHAT ABOUT HEALTHCARE

It seems that all we here about recently is about our economy and the economic crisis that we are facing.  First I must say that the government and banks did NOT cause this problem, PEOPLE DID.  No One held a gun to someones head and said You must buy this house that you really can’t afford.  The same goes for cars, boats, vacations, and everything that we have put on credit cards.  I recently heard that the average household in the U.S. has a $9000 dollar credit card balance while the average household income is around 50,000 dollars, One fifth of our income is owed to a credit card that is charging us between 8 and 30 percent interest.  Let’s call a apple and apple, WE HAVE NOT BEEN ACTING OUR WAGE.  I do not pretend to be the “master” of my own money (yet, but am getting much closer) nor do I judge anyone who got caught up in this easy credit economy.  My real concern is for our up and coming “health care crisis”  why do I say up and coming, because we are just now beginning to see the baby boomers get to the age where they are going to require more health care and I don’t see how we are going to keep up.  If you were to ask me for my opinion on what to do I would have to say there are a couple of things.

1) Make education more accessible for those who want to become a doctor or a nurse.

2) Educate the public on how to prepare themselves financially.

3) give tax breaks to those who stay home to take care of aging family members.

These are obviously not that easy but it is a place to start.  It is a very real and cruel situation when people are having to choose between eating or taking meds because they can’t afford to do both. In my opinion, That is a crisis.

October 03 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments »