Re: “Affordability isn’t a hoax. It’s not a crisis for most, either” (Dec. 16, Opinion):
I used to be baffled to learn Allison Schrager’s column, which didn’t include any point out in anyway of skyrocketing well being care prices. How about these thousands and thousands who’re about to see a doubling of their insurance coverage premiums because of the dumping of the subsidies that made them reasonably priced?
And I’m very bored with seeing the outdated argument that youngster care is a short lived value for households (the common annual value within the Seattle space is $19,200 per youngster). What occurs when these over 5 want summer time camp — at the least until they’re 12 — throughout the ridiculously lengthy U.S. summer time break? (For comparability, the UK has a 6-week summer time break.)
As reported in The Seattle Occasions (“Seattle-area pricey youngster care strains household budgets throughout summer time break,” June 20, Enterprise), in King County “extra reasonably priced packages vary from $400 to $700 per week.” Taking the conservative determine of $500 per week, for the common two-child household that’s years of paying $10,000 per summer time, which nobody ever contains in these value estimates.
And each single kind of insurance coverage, from skilled legal responsibility, to accommodate, automotive and long-term care, can be in unregulated, unremitting ascendancy to the sky.
Jacqueline Houston, Seattle
