Health Insurance

This time of year my family always gets wound up about the weather and the way things are going. This year especially with the crazy things that are going on with our economy in this country, they have been especially uptight about things like my bills and my job. This weekend I was fortunate and cursed enough to be able to go home and see them for a dinner before a long semester's work. I won't be able to go back and visit until Thanksgiving so this was sort of another going away for us all.
This time our visit was a little more heated than usual as the banking news was pouring in piece by piece all week. My father is a banker at a local branch of Bank of America so he had plenty of things to say. I was pouring out all of my economics vocabulary but still had no idea what they were talking about when they would go along with what I was trying to say. My uncle who works for a health insurance company had plenty of things to say as well. He works in the south and sells mainly Florida health insurance, Texas health insurance, and Georgia Health insurance. He was saying that he has never seen so many people just losing policies all at once because they can't afford them. For him the biggest thing that he does is that he adjusts claims for those who want to try and refinance or drop insurance's all together. The way he sees it, all of the mortgage issues, and the increasing number of powerful storms down that way in recent years has caused a lot of the financial woe for the people in those states.
I am still sort of awash in information regarding all of these seemingly world changing events. My mind is even still reeling from all of that family interaction, but I think that I am lucky for having such an insider view of what is going on within this huge problem. I just hope that this is as much involvement with those problems as I have because I don't want to end up broke from the falling state of finances in this country.