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Workers Fallng Behind: How Modest Healthcare Premium Increases Hide Important Part of Story
Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP] [Opinion] Aug. 21, 2013 "Many of the media reports about this annual Kaiser survey of employer-sponsored plans are expressing relief that the increases in premiums are relatively modest -- only about 4 or 5 percent. But these numbers are not so reassuring when you consider that they are over twice the rate of wage increases and four time the rate of inflation. Workers continue to fall behind.... [P]lans requiring high deductibles have increased and the amounts of those deductibles also have continued to increase. Thus the percentage increase in the premiums can be quite deceptive if you ignore the increase in out-of-pocket expenses that workers and their families are experiencing." |
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