The most recent report on employer health insurance from the Kaiser Family Foundation is full of disturbing trends that spell increasing trouble for the US health care system.
"Premiums for family health coverage have more than doubled since 1999. Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums have risen from $5,791 in 1999 to $12,680 in 2008."
We haven't been hearing much about health care reform lately, given the cascading crisis in the financial markets, and yet the two are intrinsically linked. Jobless rates are up, incomes are down, and health insurance premiums have doubled under George W. Bush!
And under Senator McCain’s plan, it is estimated that your costs WILL DOUBLE AGAIN!
McCain's plan will tax employer provided health care benefits, making premiums even more expensive for the American people and making it likely that more employers will drop coverage all together for their workers, dumping 20 million Americans into the ranks of the uninsured or into a private plan in the individual market.
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