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 Study Shows Steep Rise in Health PremiumsPosted on Sep 27, 2011
A new study shows that the cost of health insurance for many Americans rose sharply this year compared to previous years, exceeding average increases in workers’ wages and giving employers even more hesitation about hiring new people. The study, released by the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation, shows that employers paid an average annual premium of $15,000 for family coverage for workers in 2011, a 9 percent increase over last year and more than twice what employers paid on average 10 years ago. —BF
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By prisnersdilema, September 28, 2011 at 7:53 am Link to this comment
Is it Health Care or Wealth Care? Ask yourself the question..
http://www.bloomingtonalternative.com/author/rob-stone
“The Divestment Campaign for Health Care is one group that is organizing a push in that direction.
Report thisFrom 1985 to 1990, more than 200 U.S. companies cut all ties with South Africa, resulting in a loss of $1 billion in direct American investment. This economic pressure hastened the fall of apartheid. It happened as a result of people power, democracy in action. Pension funds divested from companies doing business with South Africa. Faith communities declared they would not support injustice. Students called on their universities to cleanse their endowments. An idea was born — “socially responsible investing.”
“There is nothing socially responsible about investing in the health insurance industry”
By MeHere, September 27, 2011 at 10:20 pm Link to this comment
Thanks for the good comments that have been posted.
Do you have the feeling that physicians are behaving like technocrats nowadays?
Check this report:
http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2005/02/01/technocrats-
Report thistakeover-threatens-patient-oriented-medicine
By grokker, September 27, 2011 at 5:52 pm Link to this comment
As more independent research is undertaken as to why health care is so damned expensive in America, more and more of the blame can be laid at the feet of greedy doctors as well as corrupt insurance companies and billing practices. Have you ever had a five to ten minute consultation with a specialist and find your insurance company was billed at 550 dollars for the privilege?
Report thisBy GW=MCHammered, September 27, 2011 at 3:52 pm Link to this comment
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American healthcare is extortion. It shuffles incompetent docs to protect their j-o-b-s. It cuts cleaning shifts when hospital infections are on the rise. It mis-diagnosis, mis-prescribes, then over-sells ‘admit patient for observation’ and is replete with nepotism too. But all for top dollar of course. Promotional event$ to help the poor ho$pital? Ab$urd.
Report thisBy Miko, September 27, 2011 at 12:03 pm Link to this comment
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Gee, I would have thought that naming a piece of
Report thislegislation the “Affordable Health Care for America
Act” would be enough to make health care affordable,
even if it was written by the insurance company
lobbyists with the specific goal of making health care
more expensive. But I guess it turns out that the
content of the legislation is more important than the
name on the first page.