Posted on 09/28/2010 4:28:16 AM PDT by tobyhill
Employers can expect to pay nearly 9 percent more for health care costs for their workers in 2011, the highest level in five years, according to a forecast released on Monday.
And employers will likely ask their workers to 12 percent more of these costs out of their pockets, according to the report from consulting group Hewitt Associates.
The Hewitt report blames higher mostly on medical claim costs and an aging population but also on U.S. healthcare reform, which has become one of the most politically charged issues in the coming November congressional elections as disappointed voters learn they must wait for promised savings to come into effect.
The report projects average health care cost per employee will rise to $9,821 in 2011, up from $9,028 in 2010. Employees will pay $2,209, or 22.5 percent of the total premium, up 12.4 percent from 2010.
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LLS
Surprise, surprise!!!
Obama is a disaster.
Why the gop is not making this an issue is beyond me.
If you paid attention you would have seen the assemblage of Republican congressmen who have signed the proposed bill to repeal the health care debacle. But I know, reality is of no important when you get the urge.
Comment from the AnnointedIdiot, botox-ridden PelosiIdiot, etc. are forthcoming or where? /s =.=
Starting January 2013...
1. 3.8% Medicare Tax on home condo, townhouse sales
2. 3.8% Medicare Tax on all *unearned income *
So much for no new taxes ...
Be careful now. I made the mistake of criticizing the GOP yesterday for not making a major issue of Obama’s new 4% tax on home sales yesterday and started a Flameathon from Repub koolade drinkers.
Go back to bed.
But for the tea parties, the gop would probably lose seats this election. They are as inept as ever and will win in spite of themselves, not because of anything they have done.
As for the kneepadders, I laugh at them.
Wow, whoda thunk that adding 30M folks to the medical rolls would raise costs?
Only math challenged liberals/progressives.
They are not going to do anything about it probably. The GOP is so lame. The Tea Party is our only hope.
No doubt at all about that. T-Party power is growing every day.
The thing that irks me is now he’s saying that he never said it wouldn’t cost more.
“If you paid attention you would have seen the assemblage of Republican congressmen who have signed the proposed bill to repeal the health care debacle. But I know, reality is of no important when you get the urge.”
Repeal sure, but then what? 10% increases as far as the eye can see?
If they do not implement follow-on free-market type reforms that have been discussed, along with tort reform, then more and more Americans will be unable to pay for medical care, and will be willing to return to Obama care, or something like it.
But for the Tea Party, Palin, and a few others like DeMint, Beck, and others - the GOP would lose seats this election.
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