Family health insurance premiums have surged 297% since 2000, reaching $25,572 in 2024 — more than tripling while inflation and wages grew much slower.
Workers have paid nearly four times more for the same coverage since 2000, with payments exceeding 10% of gross income or more than five weeks of full-time work for median earners.
Deductibles for employer plans have risen nearly 50% in the past decade.
More workers have high-deductible health plans, with 32% now facing deductibles of $2,000 or more for single coverage.
Health care gaps are widening, with small business employees, low-wage workers, self-employed and pre-Medicare adults facing increasingly unaffordable premium-to-income ratios.
The U.S. spends more on health care than other developed nations at $12,742 per person, yet high costs remain a significant problem.
Health care spending will likely continue rising, with per-person costs expected to reach $21,927 by 2032.
Medicare for All could be framed as a Corporate Tax Cut, but Dems suck at messaging! Meanwhile, our effective wages are shrinking and all getting poorer
We are getting fucked from every side in this shithole country
This would be more useful if it examined real cost of all healthcare, not just premiums.
The idea of Obamacare was increasing the portion most people paid as insurance premiums and decreasing out of pocket costs, of course insurance rates were gonna go up dramatically after that.
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Family health insurance premiums have surged 297% since 2000, reaching $25,572 in 2024 — more than tripling while inflation and wages grew much slower.
Workers have paid nearly four times more for the same coverage since 2000, with payments exceeding 10% of gross income or more than five weeks of full-time work for median earners.
Deductibles for employer plans have risen nearly 50% in the past decade.
More workers have high-deductible health plans, with 32% now facing deductibles of $2,000 or more for single coverage.
Health care gaps are widening, with small business employees, low-wage workers, self-employed and pre-Medicare adults facing increasingly unaffordable premium-to-income ratios.
The U.S. spends more on health care than other developed nations at $12,742 per person, yet high costs remain a significant problem.
Health care spending will likely continue rising, with per-person costs expected to reach $21,927 by 2032.
Medicare for All could be framed as a Corporate Tax Cut, but Dems suck at messaging! Meanwhile, our effective wages are shrinking and all getting poorer
We are getting fucked from every side in this shithole country
This would be more useful if it examined real cost of all healthcare, not just premiums.
The idea of Obamacare was increasing the portion most people paid as insurance premiums and decreasing out of pocket costs, of course insurance rates were gonna go up dramatically after that.
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