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Originally Posted by Robbie
Yeah, people who work for other people in jobs that have health insurance probably don't notice it at all.
But everyone that I'm talking about are people who pay their own insurance. And maybe I'm wrong...but I haven't heard of any big companies that pay for employee insurance all happy over lower premiums.
Am I wrong about that? Or have the vast majority of people actually seen a decrease in their "health care" costs like we were told that this was needed so badly for in the first place.
His promise of lowering premiums was supposed to happen right off the bat. And it was supposed to be only the beginning of all the good news...
But instead of me or you or some of the guys on here who think I'm crazy talking about it, let's hear from the man himself:
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This is from one of the articles I linked. I looks like rates are still on the rise, but as an average across the entire spectrum the rise has slowed. However people are now spending more of their income on insurance premiums and deductibles than ever before. Here is a quote:
"Looking at trends in private employer-based health insurance from 2003 to 2013, this issue brief finds that premiums for family coverage increased 73 percent over the past decade?faster than median family income. Employees? contributions to their premiums climbed by 93 percent over that time frame. At the same time, deductibles more than doubled in both large and small firms. Workers are thus paying more but getting less protective benefits. However, the study also finds that while premiums continued to rise through 2013, the rate of growth slowed between 2010 and 2013, following implementation of the Affordable Care Act. While families experienced slower growth in premium contributions and deductibles over this period, sluggish growth in median family income means families are paying more in premiums and deductibles as a share of their income than ever before.: