By Richard E Walrath

What a difference 20 years makes… 

In 1982 there were 312,000 bankruptcy fillings – with 8% due to medical costs.

In 2001 there were 1.458 million bankruptcy fillings with 46.2% due to medical costs.

75.7% of those that sought bankruptcy for medical reasons had health insurance.

http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/healthcare/medicalbankruptcy/

Most people today aren’t as well off as they were in 1981, at the same corresponding ages.

Wages in the last twenty years have not increased as much as health care costs.  In the last six years, it’s been really bad.

And I’m afraid that it’s now about to get worse.  More and more money has been moving toward the top.  That’s going to stop, but that won’t help those in the middle and on the bottom.