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<blockquote data-quote="PT Stewie" data-source="post: 1127431" data-attributes="member: 12889"><p><strong>Re: Concessions with record profits?????? are u serious hoffa and Hall?</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #212121"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Health expenditures in the United States neared $2.6 trillion in 2010, over ten times the $256 billion spent in 1980.<a href="http://www.kaiseredu.org/issue-modules/us-health-care-costs/background-brief.aspx#footnote1" target="_blank">[1]</a> The rate of growth in recent years has slowed relative to the late 1990s and early 2000s, but is still expected to grow faster than national income over the foreseeable future.<a href="http://www.kaiseredu.org/issue-modules/us-health-care-costs/background-brief.aspx#footnote2" target="_blank">[2]</a> Addressing this growing burden continues to be a major policy priority. Furthermore, the United States has been in a recession for much of the past decade, resulting in higher unemployment and lower incomes for many Americans. These conditions have put even more attention on health spending and affordability. [1]</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #212121"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Since 2002, employer-sponsored health coverage for family premiums have increased by 97%, placing increasing cost burdens on employers and workers. <a href="http://www.kaiseredu.org/issue-modules/us-health-care-costs/background-brief.aspx#footnote3" target="_blank">[3]</a> In the public sector, Medicare covers the elderly and people with disabilities, and Medicaid provides coverage to low-income families. Enrollment has grown in Medicare with the aging of the baby boomers and in Medicaid due to the recession.[1], <a href="http://www.kaiseredu.org/issue-modules/us-health-care-costs/background-brief.aspx#footnote4" target="_blank">[4]</a> This means that total government spending has increased considerably, straining federal and state budgets. In total, health spending accounted for 17.9% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2010. <a href="http://www.kaiseredu.org/issue-modules/us-health-care-costs/background-brief.aspx#footnote5" target="_blank">[5]</a></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #212121"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #212121"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> Health care cost up 97% since '92 and from what I hear you are not out of your pay check anything but maybe some extra $$ in copays. My full time job for family coverage ( I work for company with 300 employees) would be $790.00 per month out of pocket and less of a plan I might add. So let get real here and as Kid said talk to our friends and neighbors.As for Pt'ers<strong> WTF</strong> it is a part time job with excellant benefits what do you want a winning lottery ticket ?</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PT Stewie, post: 1127431, member: 12889"] [b]Re: Concessions with record profits?????? are u serious hoffa and Hall?[/b] [COLOR=#212121][FONT=Arial]Health expenditures in the United States neared $2.6 trillion in 2010, over ten times the $256 billion spent in 1980.[URL="http://www.kaiseredu.org/issue-modules/us-health-care-costs/background-brief.aspx#footnote1"][1][/URL] The rate of growth in recent years has slowed relative to the late 1990s and early 2000s, but is still expected to grow faster than national income over the foreseeable future.[URL="http://www.kaiseredu.org/issue-modules/us-health-care-costs/background-brief.aspx#footnote2"][2][/URL] Addressing this growing burden continues to be a major policy priority. Furthermore, the United States has been in a recession for much of the past decade, resulting in higher unemployment and lower incomes for many Americans. These conditions have put even more attention on health spending and affordability. [1][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#212121][FONT=Arial]Since 2002, employer-sponsored health coverage for family premiums have increased by 97%, placing increasing cost burdens on employers and workers. [URL="http://www.kaiseredu.org/issue-modules/us-health-care-costs/background-brief.aspx#footnote3"][3][/URL] In the public sector, Medicare covers the elderly and people with disabilities, and Medicaid provides coverage to low-income families. Enrollment has grown in Medicare with the aging of the baby boomers and in Medicaid due to the recession.[1], [URL="http://www.kaiseredu.org/issue-modules/us-health-care-costs/background-brief.aspx#footnote4"][4][/URL] This means that total government spending has increased considerably, straining federal and state budgets. In total, health spending accounted for 17.9% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2010. [URL="http://www.kaiseredu.org/issue-modules/us-health-care-costs/background-brief.aspx#footnote5"][5][/URL] [SIZE=3] Health care cost up 97% since '92 and from what I hear you are not out of your pay check anything but maybe some extra $$ in copays. My full time job for family coverage ( I work for company with 300 employees) would be $790.00 per month out of pocket and less of a plan I might add. So let get real here and as Kid said talk to our friends and neighbors.As for Pt'ers[B] WTF[/B] it is a part time job with excellant benefits what do you want a winning lottery ticket ?[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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