Scary Stuff!

This is a very discouraging article about people who are holding off on preventative medicine and necessary medical procedures because they can't afford it right now. This will only hurt everyone in the future!! Healthcare is already rising at a 9% annual inflation rate.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/15/AR2008101503762.html?sid=ST2008101500125&s_pos=

I also just read this in a Business Week article: "The Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit that studies health-care issues, estimates that McCain's plan would reduce the number of uninsured Americans by 1.3 million over the next decade, at a cost of $1.3 billion, while Obama's plan would reduce the uninsured by 34 million and cost $1.63 billion." Hmmmm...