Rising interest rates on credit cards are doubtless bringing pain to many Americans, but this is what credit-card companies must do in order to remain profitable amid rising defaults.
Finally, we have energy prices falling, rather than rising, which is helping to mute and mitigate the pain of the loss of income many are experiencing, and this is something we didn't even have a year ago.
The health care industry is well defended in Washington, but the level of financial pain, and the extent to which providers do embarrassingly well by doing good, isrising to the action threshold, perhaps?