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    Health Care for All Report : Increase in cost of insurance as share of median income from 2006 to 2016

    By oldenGoldenDecoy on Thu, 06/25/2009 - 9:00pm |

    For your general information . . .



    From: Health Care For America Now!


    June 23rd, 2009

    Skyrocketing premiums and out-of-pocket medical costs are battering family budgets, eroding U.S. competitiveness in the global economy and threatening the American standard of living, once the envy of the world. As President Barack Obama and his economic advisers have repeatedly said, health costs are increasing at an unsustainable rate, and the national economy will not thrive unless they are reined in. Health care reform that guarantees quality, affordable care for everyone in the United States -- and offers the choice of a public health insurance plan -- can do what our private health insurance system has failed to do: provide economic security for families and the nation. read more



    Health Insurance: Unaffordable Now, And Destined To Get Much Worse

    Mouse over each state to see the percentage of median income absorbed by employer-sponsored insurance in 2006, and what that percentage would be in 2016 without a change in policy.

    Click a state and the document icon to get the full report.
    Increase in cost of insurance
    as share of median income,
    from 2006 to 2016

         70% and lower (turquoise)
         71% to 85%
         86% to 100%
         101% to 115%
         115% or higher (black)



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