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Now there's proof: Obamacare costs a mint
http://www.washingtontimes.com/n…Obamacare was supposed to make health care affordable for everyone. It failed. We now have proof that President Obama’s signature accomplishment is only making things more expensive. According to a new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation (http://www.kff.org), health-insurance premiums for a family surged 9 percent this year - the largest jump since 2005.
That increase is more than double the rate of general inflation (3.8 percent) and quadruple wage growth (1.6 percent). The average American family’s health-insurance tab is $15,000 a year, which is double the amount paid a decade ago. Employers are stuck paying most of this, but employees are finding that the premium hikes cut into their ability to receive raises and cost-of-living adjustments. Employee contributions to health benefits have increased 168 percent since 1999, according to the Kaiser study. That’s quadruple the inflation rate and almost triple earnings growth.
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), or just Kaiser Family Foundation, is a U.S.-based non-profit, private operating foundation headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It focuses on the major health care issues facing the nation, as well as the U.S. role in global health policy. The Foundation states that it is a "non-partisan source of facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public." - Source: Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka...
- hey look at this graph, healthcare was affordable before http://corporate.dem…zaq
- pshhhhh no comparison********
- Why quote an opinion column from the Wash. Times? That's a sham paper owned by Rev. Moon.WrappedInBooks