Reply #11: We pay half our income for health insurance and medical bills that insurance does not cover. [View All]

That is an insane amount of money considering it is just three of us and we are all active people no one with a transplant or on dialysis or anything. Just unlucky enough to have to be on the state's high risk pool insurance which costs an arm and a leg and has a mega deductible. Had to take out a mortgage on our house this year to cover medical bills and can not live on our current income because of the high cost of insurance and medical expenses.

I am afraid that health care reform will not come soon enough. They will probably bicker over it for two more years and use it in the 2010 midterms to try to consolidate power in Congress claiming that the 42 Senate Republicans have kept them from doing anything while what they are really doing is stalling so that they will not have to spend the money or anger the insurance industry---that is my fear.

Daschle is so mad at the GOP I could see him using health care in this way, just to get even with them.