I agree, that's the problem, we are kind of over a barrel as consumers, because no, I'm not going to say "hell no I'm not going to take a med that massively improves the quality of my life".... there isn't much you can do except grin and bear it. And insurance is the same, prices keep going up, literally, my husbands company is predicting a cost increase of approximately 40% in January...and what can we do about it? Granted we could shop around for new insurance, but the problem is that individual insurance (insurance not provided by his employer) is even more expensive than what they provide us with. And God knows there is no way, as I've already explained, that I can go without insurance in protest of their prices. And the sad thing is that here in Florida, the doctors just "went on strike" because insurance companies aren't paying them what they want to be paid for their services. I understand that these people went to school for a long time, and have school loans, etc, but how rich do they think they need to be? Going back to the insurance issue...I looked at my husband's pay stub last week...between insurance and taxes, we have gotten less than half of what he has actually earned this year. Does anyone else see a problem with this?