Aunty M,
Your present coverage most likely was not earned. More likely you and your spouse earned the promise of health care, which we must now aborb at a much higher rate than anticipated. It is now left up to the younger generations to payoff the promises of their parents. I am not saying you do not deserve what you are getting, but to think that you earned it and the next generation earn their own too is just plain wrong. Not only are they stuck paying a deliberating sum for their own insurance, they are also burdened with paying a large percentage of the generation before them. Most people have no idea what health care really costs. I remember one year when the local teachers union was complaining about their insurance costs which went up $15.00 a month. Little did they know I had the same insurance and mine went up over $200 a month.