The rising costs of healthcare, even for those with insurance, are causing increasing strain for American families. In a so-called "soft" economy, fewer people are willing to pay the rising out of pocket costs to get the basic and preventive care they need. As employers shift more of the burgeoning costs to employees, the healthcare crisis touches more American families.
It's not just about the uninsured anymore, though those numbers are climbing dramatically as well.
Anecdotally, grocery stores and coffee shops and banks are so frequently populated by pictures and stories of families with young children asking for help offsetting healthcare costs for some rare form of childhood cancer or leukemia or disease, I wonder if healthcare costs will eventually drive all us to financial ruin, but those are just on my cheerful days.
My family gets by with some of us on catastrophic (huge deductibles, covered in emergencies only) and some of us on 80/20 employer plans (Do employers ever cover dependents anymore?). At least Florida is onto something....
Meanwhile, what does your family do in regard to health insurance?
