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Title: COST OF Health Insurance in NC(13,100 a year has risen 5 times faster than wages
Post by: The True Adonis on August 19, 2009, 10:47:40 AM

Report: N.C. health care costs rise five times faster than wages
TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2009
By    THE ASSOCIATED PRESS   


http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/08/18/article/report_nc_healthcare_costs_rise_five_times_faster_than_wages

RALEIGH (AP) — A consumer advocacy group says the cost of buying health insurance for a North Carolina family has climbed five times faster than income since the start of the decade.

Families USA released a report Tuesday that says insurance premiums almost doubled between 2000 and 2009, from $6,650 to almost $13,100. The figure includes worker and employer payments for health care.

The report says median earnings rose by 18 percent, from $23,100 to $27,330 in the same period.

Families USA says health care costs continue to rise faster than income while employers scale back coverage and employees pay higher deductibles and co-payments.

The nonprofit for health care consumers says coverage costs are an increasing burden on families.

Title: Re: COST OF Health Insurance in NC(13,100 a year has risen 5 times faster than w
Post by: The True Adonis on August 19, 2009, 10:58:36 AM

 :-\

Title: Re: COST OF Health Insurance in NC(13,100 a year has risen 5 times faster than w
Post by: The True Adonis on August 19, 2009, 11:14:53 AM

 :'(

Title: Re: COST OF Health Insurance in NC(13,100 a year has risen 5 times faster than w
Post by: GigantorX on August 19, 2009, 05:11:09 PM

Here is a question that no-one is bothering to ask in D.C.

Why? :-\

Title: Re: COST OF Health Insurance in NC(13,100 a year has risen 5 times faster than w
Post by: The True Adonis on August 20, 2009, 09:39:10 AM

Bump as I will try to go state by state regarding average Private Health Insurance costs per family.

Title: Re: COST OF Health Insurance in NC(13,100 a year has risen 5 times faster than wages
Post by: shootfighter1 on August 20, 2009, 10:15:35 AM

No doubt, this is a huge issue.  I think the biggest reason for rising cost is medical technology...in that case, it will be difficult to stop the rate of cost.

Title: Re: COST OF Health Insurance in NC(13,100 a year has risen 5 times faster than wages
Post by: 240 is Back on August 20, 2009, 10:44:17 AM

wow, that is a huge rise in cost.

If we see another decade of increase like that, most people aren't going to be able to afford it.

Maybe obama's trying to stop the problem so at the end of his 4 or 8 years, we aren't looking at a situation where 50% of America doesn't have coverage?