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