Posted on 09/22/2015 12:57:16 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Employers are leaving a bigger chunk of the bill for care to workers who use their health insurance, and benefits experts see few signs of this trend slowing.
Most companies now offer health coverage that requires employees to pay an annual deductible before insurance kicks in, and the size of that deductible has soared in the past decade, according to a survey released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research & Educational Trust.
The average general deductible for workers with single coverage totaled $1,077 this year, compared to only $303 in 2006. That deductible has climbed nearly seven times faster than wages, on average, over the past five years.
“That has an impact on family budgets,” Kaiser CEO Drew Altman said. …
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LIES!!!!!!
All LIES!!!!!
We have Obamacare. It cured everything and cost nothing.
Another by-product planned for and brought to you by FUBOCare.
We will soon reach the point where the taxpayers have high deductible, high copay, limited network, restricted benefit plans while the non-productive class has free government paid healthcare with no deductibles, no copays, and a national network.
Why does the media gloss over so many problems, such as this cost issue, caused by Obamacare??
Can you imagine the media reactions, if some new programs or policy by a Republican president had so many unintended consequences, cost issues, etc....????
The insurance costs for my business went up 30% for 2016.
I pay 100% of my employees health insurance premium. Yes their coverage changed.
Exactly why it is so destructive for people to fund cable/dish/newspapers/mainstream media websites.
The WWII generation which experienced the highest standard of living and stability in U.S. history. All generations that followed were conned, lied to, looted and have become accustomed to increasing across the board decline.
Wasn’t this predicted years ago?
This is very true. My parents accumulated some wealth which they have very recently (unfortunately) passed on to me and my siblings. My husband and I could never have done as well. Of course, unlike my generation, they were very frugal.
This is a good thing.
Tying medical care to employment (a way to circumvent Roosevelt’s WW2 wage controls) was a huge mistake.
It isolated the payer from the service consumed.
I fear you are correct.
I was looking over a company’s benefits the other day and saw that their best plan was $600 per month with 10k deductibles. When I asked why it was so bad, they replied “affordable care act”.
All by design, to make people beg for Single-Payer.
There ya go. My folks and most of that entire generation didn’t even think of things like health care, dirt cheap gas, stable good paying jobs with great benefits, retirement pensions, very affordable homes and on and on. It just went along with a great America.
That was the late great America.
Thank god the GOP funded it 5 times!
It was great. Of course, my father got things on the GI Bill - home loan with low interest, his education, etc. But even so, our home was $20,000 with a thirty-year mortgage! The property taxes were low, state taxes in NJ were low and there was no sales tax. They had blue cross/blue shield but even so, our dental and doctor bills were miniscule! And in the those days, the free public education system was very good. No nonsense teachers and no nonsense courses.
I pay $5000 a year with a $6800 deductible.
We are there. I pay 5k with a $6800 deductible for a bottom plan. Those who are broke can get a much higher plan with no deductible and they don’t pay a dime.
California.
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