Jenny, i'm so with you. I went through cancer without insurance, barely, and now my insurance premiums are keeping me from putting a dime into the bank. It's utterly disgusting that one of our basic rights--health--should have become a consumer commodity like everything else in this country. What do you do when you're priced out? The medical and insurance industries are so deep into the government's pockets and vice versa, lord knows what can be done. And they dish out such talking-head bull. There's always someone deciding what is "affordable" for you. But who actually knows that? You, and you alone. It's shameful, criminal even, that in the supposed "greatest nation on earth" the cost of medical care and insurance prevents millions of hard-working, deserving citizens from acheiving the american dream. People who will work their lives away, responsible and dynamic... Only to die poor anyway. Let's face it: your human worth is measured by your net worth, and your life itself is only worth what you are able to pay for it. It will be the economic ruin of this country, and demonstrates that an ethical rot already runs deep. Do something with that anger--squawk and squawk loud. The world needs to know this truth.
Luck and love,
richard day gore