http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/16/news/economy/health-care-costs-rise-most-in-32years/
can anyone think of anything different we did that may have caused this?
can anyone think of anything different we did that may have caused this?
health care costs rise by most in 32 years
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Legion Troll
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I predicted that deplorables would try to blame this on Obama. I was 100% correct. 
A quiet but profound shift is fundamentally reshaping how health insurance works for the roughly 155 million Americans who receive coverage through their employers.
A national survey of employer health benefits released Wednesday shows how much deductibles — the health-care costs that people must pay out of their own pockets before insurance kicks in — have shot up.
In 2016, 4 in 5 workers had a deductible as part of their individual coverage, averaging $1,478.
During the past five years, deductibles have grown 10 times as fast as inflation and nearly six times as fast as wages.
For the first time, employer-sponsored health plans also reached a new benchmark: Half of all workers who receive insurance through their employers faced a deductible of at least $1,000 a year for individual coverage — up from just 10 percent of workers in 2006.
The average deductible for individuals in firms with fewer than 200 employees is $2,069.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/09/14/the-quiet-change-to-insurance-plans-thats-making-health-care-more-expensive-for-patients/?wpisrc=nl_draw2&wpmm=1
http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?72751-How-will-deplorables-blame-this-on-Obama
A quiet but profound shift is fundamentally reshaping how health insurance works for the roughly 155 million Americans who receive coverage through their employers.
A national survey of employer health benefits released Wednesday shows how much deductibles — the health-care costs that people must pay out of their own pockets before insurance kicks in — have shot up.
In 2016, 4 in 5 workers had a deductible as part of their individual coverage, averaging $1,478.
During the past five years, deductibles have grown 10 times as fast as inflation and nearly six times as fast as wages.
For the first time, employer-sponsored health plans also reached a new benchmark: Half of all workers who receive insurance through their employers faced a deductible of at least $1,000 a year for individual coverage — up from just 10 percent of workers in 2006.
The average deductible for individuals in firms with fewer than 200 employees is $2,069.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/09/14/the-quiet-change-to-insurance-plans-thats-making-health-care-more-expensive-for-patients/?wpisrc=nl_draw2&wpmm=1
http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?72751-How-will-deplorables-blame-this-on-Obama
PostmodernProphet
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I predicted that deplorables would try to blame this on Obama. I was 100% correct.
blame what, Trollop......I'm pretty sure the liberals have told us that costs went down.....is there something someone needs to be blamed for?.....
It's not looking good...I'm wondering if Obamacare is gonna crater.
If the Dems had put up sanders we'd be on the road to Medicare for all -and gotten rid of one of the most profitable industries in the US
-insurance companies. Profiting at the expense of millions of Americans
If the Dems had put up sanders we'd be on the road to Medicare for all -and gotten rid of one of the most profitable industries in the US
-insurance companies. Profiting at the expense of millions of Americans
Legion Troll
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It could still happen if the Illdebeast drops out.
from your lips to God's ears, as the saying goes.
I could vote for someone who wasn't deplorable
Legion Troll
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Darth Omar
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Yeah, but then it would a gargantuan VA lol.
I get an earful from docs on this. From their perspective the problem with the socialist model is it disincentives their production. A lot of these people will put in the 80 hour weeks [omg they can have it] because they have an incentive to do it.
In other words, it's profitable for them to bust out 5 or 6 total joint replacements a day under the current model---but they don't see it happening under the socialist model.
Not that I have the answer for it.
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