Comments on: BlueCross BlueShield jacks up premiums, uses them to fight public option http://mnpublius.com/2009/10/bluecross-blueshield-jacks-up-premiums-uses-them-to-fight-public-option/ Tracking Minnesota Politics Since 2005 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:30:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dane http://mnpublius.com/2009/10/bluecross-blueshield-jacks-up-premiums-uses-them-to-fight-public-option/#comment-45999 Dane Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:52:53 +0000 http://mnpublius.com/?p=7053#comment-45999 <a href="http://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.shtml</a> http://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.shtml

]]> By: Dane http://mnpublius.com/2009/10/bluecross-blueshield-jacks-up-premiums-uses-them-to-fight-public-option/#comment-45997 Dane Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:51:23 +0000 http://mnpublius.com/?p=7053#comment-45997 Just want to say, don't be fooled by that 38% growth in workers pay. Executive pay has skewed that statistic. Furthermore, here's some more fun reading!!! "Without health care reform, small businesses will pay nearly $2.4 trillion dollars over the next ten years in health care costs for their workers, 178,000 small business jobs will be lost by 2018 as a result of health care costs, $834 billion in small business wages will be lost due to high health care costs over the next ten years, small businesses will lose $52.1 billion in profits to high health care costs and 1.6 million small business workers will suffer “job lock“— roughly one in 16 people currently insured by their employers." Small Business Republicans, tell us how opposing this plan helps those statistics. Regulation now! Just want to say, don't be fooled by that 38% growth in workers pay. Executive pay has skewed that statistic.

Furthermore, here's some more fun reading!!!

"Without health care reform, small businesses will pay nearly $2.4 trillion dollars over the next ten years in health care costs for their workers, 178,000 small business jobs will be lost by 2018 as a result of health care costs, $834 billion in small business wages will be lost due to high health care costs over the next ten years, small businesses will lose $52.1 billion in profits to high health care costs and 1.6 million small business workers will suffer “job lock“ — roughly one in 16 people currently insured by their employers."

Small Business Republicans, tell us how opposing this plan helps those statistics.

Regulation now!

]]> By: NorthernMNer http://mnpublius.com/2009/10/bluecross-blueshield-jacks-up-premiums-uses-them-to-fight-public-option/#comment-45995 NorthernMNer Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:40:23 +0000 http://mnpublius.com/?p=7053#comment-45995 "Since 1999, premiums have increased a total of 131%, compared with 38% growth in workers' wages and a 28% rise in inflation." <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/family-health-premiums-rise-5-in-2009-survey-2009-09-15" target="_blank">http://www.marketwatch.com/story/family-health-pr...</a> So for those of you without calculators at home, this means that on average, premiums are going up at 13% pace per year in the period '99-'09. Health care reform, anyone? "Since 1999, premiums have increased a total of 131%, compared with 38% growth in workers' wages and a 28% rise in inflation."

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/family-health-pr...

So for those of you without calculators at home, this means that on average, premiums are going up at 13% pace per year in the period '99-'09.

Health care reform, anyone?

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