Healthcare inflation and rising deductibles in covered care (employer provided healthcare coverage)
How about this for hypocrisy: Here is a figure from Kaiser about the cost of healthcare for covered workers (that is, the vast majority of Americans that still get their healthcare coverage from their employer). It has nothing to do with Obamacare. But look, premiums rose between 2001 and 2006 by a whopping 63%, about 10% a year! In the (mostly) crisis years, they still rose 31%, over 5% per year.
Did we ever hear these rightwingers who rile against Obamacare, accusing it of sending premiums sky high about the premium inflation in employer healthcare? Of course not..
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And there is more. While the right-wing hysterics against Obamacare riles about deductibles, look what happened to deductibles in covered care:
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Yes, you see, they've risen 63% in the last five years! Do we ever hear these right-wingers riling against Obamacare about this?
Of course not..
How about this for hypocrisy: Here is a figure from Kaiser about the cost of healthcare for covered workers (that is, the vast majority of Americans that still get their healthcare coverage from their employer). It has nothing to do with Obamacare. But look, premiums rose between 2001 and 2006 by a whopping 63%, about 10% a year! In the (mostly) crisis years, they still rose 31%, over 5% per year.
Did we ever hear these rightwingers who rile against Obamacare, accusing it of sending premiums sky high about the premium inflation in employer healthcare? Of course not..
And there is more. While the right-wing hysterics against Obamacare riles about deductibles, look what happened to deductibles in covered care:
Yes, you see, they've risen 63% in the last five years! Do we ever hear these right-wingers riling against Obamacare about this?
Of course not..