Hey haters, where are the huge increases in healthcare costs?

The study is from the Kaiser Family Foundation, not the NY Times.

Health Care Costs Climb Moderately, Survey Says
By ANDREW POLLACK

Premiums for employer-provided health insurance have increased by relatively modest amounts this year, according to a new survey, a further sign that once-torrid health care inflation has abated for now.

The average annual premium for a family rose 4 percent in 2013, to $16,351, according to the survey results released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Annual premiums for individual policies purchased through an employer rose 5 percent, to $5,884.

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The data also suggest that the new health care law is not leading, at least so far, to a rapid escalation of insurance costs.

“The critics will have a much harder time blaming big premium increases in employer insurance on Obamacare this year, because there aren’t any big premium increases,” Drew Altman, chief executive of the Kaiser foundation, said in a telephone news conference Tuesday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/business/survey-finds-modest-rise-in-health-insurance-premiums.html?pagewanted=print

Ted2013-08-25T19:19:03Z

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Ask the families of UPS who will be losing their health insurance next year.
http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/blog/morning-edition/2013/08/ups-cuts-health-benefits-for-spouses.html
Or, ask Delta airlines about their 100million dollar increase in healthcare costs
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/23/delta-warns-obamacare-will-drive-100-million-spike-in-health-care-costs/

tonalc22013-08-26T02:22:05Z

Not there.

One thing you forgot to include is the comparison of increases. Insurance premiums increase every year no matter what, and that is due to rising health care costs. In 2011, they jumped about 9%--but according to insurance companies themselves, only 2% of that was due to the Affordable Care Act.

Insurance premiums have risen almost 200% in the past twelve year years (before Obamacare). Wages have increased about 50%.

Edit @tha white man: That 88% number has been debunked:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/12/1215746/-Ohio-s-Lt-Gov-lies-about-Obamacare-rate-hikes#

electricpole2013-08-26T02:19:14Z

The expensive portions of the bill are being postponed until after the mid terms. The nastier realities are continually being put off, kicking the can down the road.
If you had any touch with business, they are moribund, waiting for the other shoe to drop. Hiring is down, or it is part time. No one with their own personal skin in the game wants to make a move.

emp2013-08-26T02:44:40Z

So healthcare costs are going up and this is good for Obamacare why? The costs are still going up and so the main public goal of the program isn't working....so can we get rid of it or do we just deal with the invasion of privacy with no benefit seen?

?2013-08-26T02:22:56Z

That's hysterical. And just what kind of raise did you get this year?

Better save your money because next year you're gonna pay out the nose. That is of course if you're not on your mommy's insurance or sponging off the taxpayers.

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