Are you better off now than you were four years ago?

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

I know for my parents the answer of "are you better off than you were 4 years ago?" the answer is no- the medical field in Iowa is seeing budget shortages due to the medicaid/medicare gap- Iowa hospitals last year lost over a billion dollars because Congress is screwing them over. My father was layed off because of the budget problems at the last hospital he worked for. Took about a year for things to settle.