Heh. The chart is expressed in percentages. Employees are paying a higher percentage. Run your pseudo-math on that.
In general, employees are paying a higher %.
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OK, let's just take the chart at face value real quick, because even when doing so, your claim that employers are "squeezing" more out of the employees using this chart is hogwash.
Maybe you've forgotten that percentages are relative? If the cost of something increases by 50%, and the cost is split by multiple people, their individual costs also go up by 50%.
Here, let me put some hard numbers in place so you can understand better.
Original cost = $100.
Employer and employee split 50/50.
Costs go up to $150. That's a 50% increase.
Employer and employee both now pay $75, which is a 50% increase for each one of them.
The chart only lists the employee's contribution increases, however, using basic math (and again, the chart at face value) we can easily deduct that the employer's contributions have very similarly increased along the same trend. And before you come up with "but my aunt's uncle's cousin's brother's work didn't" story, we're talking on average, not literally every single one. Some have indeed passed all costs on, others have absorbed more than the equivalent increase, and many have maintained their same split.
Either you need to go back and learn some basic math, or you're purposely distorting the truth
Ain't private health insurance great! 16% of GDP down a rat hole.
Next time, demand a single payer system.
Countries that spend the most on health care
1. United States
Total expenditure on health per capita: $7,960
Expenditure as percent of GDP: 17.4 percent (the most)
Heh. The chart is expressed in percentages. Employees are paying a higher percentage. Run your pseudo-math on that.
Makes me laugh to think that there is so much Repub demanded "compromises" in the ACA and somehow it's all Obama's and the Dem's doing that the ACA got watered down to the point where it's not at all what it was meant to be and do.
You Repubs should thank your own legislators for why the ACA looks and behaves the way it does, and yes, the Blue Dog Dems from Red States also had much to do with the Frankenstein nature of the Act. However, there are good things about the Act that survived the shredder the Repubs and lobbyists put that legislation through.
Own up for once.
Wooosh you totally missed it.
If you're focusing on the last couple points where the employee cost increase went up a few points more than the total premium cost increase, then you're totally ignoring other years it was the other way around or even. Come on, read the whole chart properly, not twist a couple points out of context.
There is no pseudo-math here on my end.
The fact remains that employers have squeezed more out of workers since 2009, and continue to do so, justifying the use of the term "are". If it goes the other way, highly unlikely with enormous unemployment, I'll say "were".
Wooosh you totally missed it.
If you're focusing on the last couple points where the employee cost increase went up a few points more than the total premium cost increase, then you're totally ignoring other years it was the other way around or even. Come on, read the whole chart properly, not twist a couple points out of context.
There is no pseudo-math here on my end.
What that chart doesn't show is that in 2007, nearly 70% of companies offered healthcare insurance to their employees. As of this year, that's down to 58%. I'm trying to find where I read this but haven't got a link yet. Will post as soon as I find one. Of course, those that work for the 12% of companies that don't now provide coverage, their share went up to 100% of the total premium.
That graphic is an abomination if only because of its fundamental misunderstanding of Venn diagrams.
your obama is a liar. next the retrograde medical service and death panels kick in. It had to be passed to find out what's in it..remember??
The president doesn't set prices of products or services offered by private companies, IDIOTS!
OK, let's just take the chart at face value real quick, because even when doing so, your claim that employers are "squeezing" more out of the employees using this chart is hogwash.
Maybe you've forgotten that percentages are relative? If the cost of something increases by 50%, and the cost is split by multiple people, their individual costs also go up by 50%.
Here, let me put some hard numbers in place so you can understand better.
Original cost = $100.
Employer and employee split 50/50.
Costs go up to $150. That's a 50% increase.
Employer and employee both now pay $75, which is a 50% increase for each one of them.
The chart only lists the employee's contribution increases, however, using basic math (and again, the chart at face value) we can easily deduct that the employer's contributions have very similarly increased along the same trend. And before you come up with "but my aunt's uncle's cousin's brother's work didn't" story, we're talking on average, not literally every single one. Some have indeed passed all costs on, others have absorbed more than the equivalent increase, and many have maintained their same split.
Either you need to go back and learn some basic math, or you're purposely distorting the truth
Health care is a huge debacle. And Obama is a bold face liar. People still cant understand how and why someone like him is just a shill for the drug companies. That is ALL he is. It's ALL he does. Shill for the big money. It is ALL he is. There is no more to it than that. And Romney is the same thing. Anyone who continues to support these two big money hack political parties gets exactly what they deserve: More lies, more pandering, more crap shoved in your face and told it smells like roses. Enjoy the frickin smell you 100 million dumb Obomney voters.
Makes me laugh to think that there is so much Repub demanded "compromises" in the ACA and somehow it's all Obama's and the Dem's doing that the ACA got watered down to the point where it's not at all what it was meant to be and do.
You Repubs should thank your own legislators for why the ACA looks and behaves the way it does, and yes, the Blue Dog Dems from Red States also had much to do with the Frankenstein nature of the Act. However, there are good things about the Act that survived the shredder the Repubs and lobbyists put that legislation through.
Own up for once.
Makes me laugh to think that there is so much Repub demanded "compromises" in the ACA and somehow it's all Obama's and the Dem's doing that the ACA got watered down to the point where it's not at all what it was meant to be and do.
You Repubs should thank your own legislators for why the ACA looks and behaves the way it does, and yes, the Blue Dog Dems from Red States also had much to do with the Frankenstein nature of the Act. However, there are good things about the Act that survived the shredder the Repubs and lobbyists put that legislation through.
Own up for once.