[Always A Marine]

The Consumer Price Index, our trustworthy barometer of price inflation, no longer includes Food, Fuel or Healthcare in its calculations. How convenient for those who point to the "official" statistics and claim "See, there is no inflation!"

[Aria]

How the ell do they get away with not including food, gas and healthcare?????

I went to the emergency room last week - on a Sunday - to make sure I didn’t have bronchitis or worse. After waiting over an hour finally a nurse practitioner saw me for maybe 5 minutes. I got a copy of the bill to my insurance yesterday - over $800. Ok...I shouldn’t have gone to the ER but geez - $800 for 5 minutes???