Sear/Booger...how do you account for:
Other findings by the Kaiser/Trust survey include:
-- Health insurance premiums went up an average of 87 percent since 2000, on a cumulative basis. During the same period, workers earnings have risen 20 percent and inflation has increased 18 percent overall.
-- Currently, employers' health benefits cover 59 percent of workers at companies with more than two employees, which is down 6 percent from 2001. That means employers cover 5 million fewer workers than they did in 2001.
-- The average worker contributes $248 a month for family health care coverage, which is up from $129 a month in 1999, despite the total percentage of premiums paid by covered employees remaining at 27 percent.
-- Of the respondent companies that offer health insurance, 49 percent said they were "very likely" or "somewhat likely" to raise their health insurance rates next year
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Do you think single head of households with children or young couples starting out can handle these types of payments?
What of employers that simly opt out/claim they simply can no longer afford to offer/contribute this type of benefit to their employees?
What of those that have a catastrophic illness? What options do they have? As I doubt very seriously any health care insurance will take them with pre-existing illness of this size/nature?
Other findings by the Kaiser/Trust survey include:
-- Health insurance premiums went up an average of 87 percent since 2000, on a cumulative basis. During the same period, workers earnings have risen 20 percent and inflation has increased 18 percent overall.
-- Currently, employers' health benefits cover 59 percent of workers at companies with more than two employees, which is down 6 percent from 2001. That means employers cover 5 million fewer workers than they did in 2001.
-- The average worker contributes $248 a month for family health care coverage, which is up from $129 a month in 1999, despite the total percentage of premiums paid by covered employees remaining at 27 percent.
-- Of the respondent companies that offer health insurance, 49 percent said they were "very likely" or "somewhat likely" to raise their health insurance rates next year
w.newstarget.com/020563.html
Do you think single head of households with children or young couples starting out can handle these types of payments?
What of employers that simly opt out/claim they simply can no longer afford to offer/contribute this type of benefit to their employees?
What of those that have a catastrophic illness? What options do they have? As I doubt very seriously any health care insurance will take them with pre-existing illness of this size/nature?
LoTD
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith.
I consider the capacity for it terrifying"....Kurt Vonnegut
I know a lot of fancy dancers,
people who can glide you on a floor,
They move so smooth but have no answers......Cat Stevens
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith.
I consider the capacity for it terrifying"....Kurt Vonnegut
I know a lot of fancy dancers,
people who can glide you on a floor,
They move so smooth but have no answers......Cat Stevens
