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<blockquote data-quote="beatupbrown" data-source="post: 245512" data-attributes="member: 4488"><p><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2005-08-30-health-care-crunch-survey_x.htm" target="_blank">http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2005-08-30-health-care-crunch-survey_x.htm</a></p><p>I agree Cherly the cost for health insurance keeps going up and up.</p><p>The cost of health care is going up much faster than people's wages," says Drew Altman of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-partisan research group not affiliated with the Kaiser medical group. "Families are paying about (on average) $1,000 more now just for health care premiums than they were five years ago."</p><p>Growth in health insurance costs outpaced inflation and wage growth.</p><p>Proposed solutions include high-deductible policies, disease-management programs for chronic illnesses and more use of computer technology to streamline medical records. (<strong>Special report: </strong><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/health-care-crunch-digest.htm" target="_blank"><u><span style="color: #0000ff">Healthcare crunch: How American pay their medical bills</span></u></a>)</p><p>The average we see is more like $12,000 per family," </p><p>Sixty-two percent of those struggling to pay medical bills have health insurance, underscoring how increasing premiums, deductibles and gaps in coverage are affecting families.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="beatupbrown, post: 245512, member: 4488"] [URL]http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2005-08-30-health-care-crunch-survey_x.htm[/URL] I agree Cherly the cost for health insurance keeps going up and up. The cost of health care is going up much faster than people's wages," says Drew Altman of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-partisan research group not affiliated with the Kaiser medical group. "Families are paying about (on average) $1,000 more now just for health care premiums than they were five years ago." Growth in health insurance costs outpaced inflation and wage growth. Proposed solutions include high-deductible policies, disease-management programs for chronic illnesses and more use of computer technology to streamline medical records. ([B]Special report: [/B][URL="http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/health-care-crunch-digest.htm"][U][COLOR=#0000ff]Healthcare crunch: How American pay their medical bills[/COLOR][/U][/URL]) The average we see is more like $12,000 per family," Sixty-two percent of those struggling to pay medical bills have health insurance, underscoring how increasing premiums, deductibles and gaps in coverage are affecting families. [/QUOTE]
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