Lack of Care is old news now

A New York Times article was written recently on the increase in price and demand for Brooklyn brownstones. To demonstrate its case, the article used an example of an owner who bought a brownstone for $50,000 in 1974 and sold it, to cover medial expenses, for $1.6 million this year. That anyone should need to sell a home, be it primary or not, to pay for medical expenses is beyond the pale. That it can be mentioned briefly in the article as a point not worth following further just tells us how immune we have become to the outrageousness of healthcare expenditures.