Can we make a point that our wages will catch up to our healthcare prices in the long run?
             For a while now our healthcare prices and wages have been on a short run (a period in which nominal wages and other input prices do not change in response to a change in the price level). While this is great for people working in healthcare, for those paying for it this is the worst thing that could happen. Long run (a period sufficiently long for nominal wages and other input prices to change in response to a change in the nation's price level) is the way we would like it to be.
             In the past healthcare prices have always been to high, but in the past four years it has soared in an upward spiral. This raise in price left people hoping that their wages would follow the trend, but wages have not been rising the same way healthcare prices have. It has been getting so bad that many people with low income jobs have began to just drop their insurance and try to stop going to the hospital. Those with chronic problems keep their insurance and try to go without other basic necessities for them and their families.
             According to a study done by the "Lewin Group For Families USA" the price for healthcare premiums in Utah has gone up by 66.3 percent in the past four years. That is five times faster than the price of wages. In the last four years wages have only gone up by 13.2 percent. There is a huge difference in price there. Companies have had to double the cost of what they pay for premiums, so not only do we have to pay more as individuals but our employers also have to take a chunk off their income to pay for their part for our insurance premiums.
             So it seems that we are defiantly on a short run with our healthcare prices and wages and most likely will be for quite some time. Even though we should be on a long run, with the way healthcare has been skyrocketing there is almost no way the prices of wages will be...