{"id":175967,"date":"2020-10-10T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/10\/thanks-obama\/"},"modified":"2020-10-10T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T23:54:00","slug":"thanks-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/10\/10\/thanks-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

In news that should surprise no one, the cost for workers’ health insurance policies, as well as deductibles have skyrocketed over the past decade<\/a>. <\/p>\n

This is not a surprise.  Obamacare was all about appeasing the malefactors in the insurance industry, and so it brought the fox into the hen house:<\/p>\n

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The high cost of health care is persisting during the pandemic, even for people lucky enough to still have job-based insurance.<\/span><\/p>\n

The average annual cost of a health plan covering a family rose to $21,342 in 2020, according to the latest survey<\/a> by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit group that tracks employer-based coverage. Workers paid about a quarter of the total premiums, or $5,588, on average, with their employers picking up the rest of the cost.<\/span><\/p>\n

An analysis of the results was published Thursday online in Heath Affairs, an academic journal. While premiums rose only slightly from the 2019 survey, the increase in premiums and deductibles together over the last decade has far outpaced both inflation and the growth in workers\u2019 earnings. Since 2010, premiums have climbed 55 percent, more than double the rise in wages or inflation, according to the foundation\u2019s analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n

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