Fallout on Main Street: The Crushing Cost of Healthcare

The faltering economy is more than just a headline to Dave and Karen Hammerschmidt of Quakertown, PA. Like millions of other Americans caught in the squeeze between higher health care costs and lower incomes, the Hammerschmidts are having an increasingly difficult time paying for rising premiums, larger co-payments, and more medications with shrinking paychecks. Dave Hammerschmidt travels four hours each day to work his construction job while Karen takes care of the house and juggles the bills. And the news is getting worse: where once the Hammerschmidts depended on their home to provide equity for hard times, these days they are seeing even the value of that investment rapidly declining.

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[trebleclefts]

In the UK they have the NHS and i know from people their that it is fantastic everyone is covered free and it is very very good, if you need a little care or a lot it is all paid for.

[wwickeddogg]

lol, you must be poor as well. Did you find it funny when the President stole 1 Trillion Dollars from you and gave it to rich bankers? Did you do anything when he stole 1 Trillion Dollars and gave it to military industrial companies?

You will probably be evicted from your home soon, good luck living in a rich man's country.

[massai86]

and yet your face looks like a lowlife asswipe...

Don't worry, when you're totally lost, some poor sick person will at least think how they may be able to help you.... dumb kids, and you're supposed to be 30? go to your room!

[wwickeddogg]

Why don't they just give up and die?

There is only room for rich people in this country everyone else should just fuck off.