Illinois 660,000 jobs lost medical benefits
It is not just a few people here and there, seeking to disconnect the rug from under its feet. There are hundreds of thousands.
Here are the latest data: the number of jobs in Illinois collapsed with medical services 660000 between 2001 and 2005, according to a study released today by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
More than 26600 private companies in the state, provision of health care during the five-year period.
Driving upward trend in medical costs - a succession of more services and medical technologies more costly - health insurance more expensive for workers and employers.
The Foundation provides a report of the ernüchterndes toll bills doctor of the family budget.
While the median income of families was in Illinois essentially flat between 2001 and 2005, the share paid for health insurance by employers jumped 25 percent during this period of five years.
(Up to the year 2005, the average cost of a family health insurance of the State, was $ 10574. Employer recovered about three-quarters of these costs.)
National, the amount paid to families of health insurance in the workplace has risen by 30 per cent between 2001 and 2005 - ten times faster than the increase of 3 percent of family income.
Translated into dollars, the average family for insurance purposes ignored 1921 $ 2001 to $ 2585 in 2005, while the median income of families grew by $ 40818 to $ 42068th
Add the greatest energy and food costs and a troubled housing and market share, which will help to put pressure on people in all, but the highest earners.
That is why you hear presidential candidates in an interview on the need for trains cost of health care in speeches and ads in the course of television.
And that is why a summit unexpected health are borne by insurance companies is also alarming.
If it takes some time, the effects seem clear. To maintain profits, insurers will have to raise prices, costs are under pressure from employers, which in turn induce more companies to drop health insurance and expand the ranks of the unversichert.
What is happening with you and your family when it comes to protecting the health care insurance and cost? What types of concerns and problems did you?
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