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Texas health insurance costs have risen 7 times faster than incomes
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| Contributor | DFWDem |
| Last Edited | DFWDem Mar 24, 2009 02:34pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Dallas Morning News |
| News Date | Tuesday, March 24, 2009 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By JASON ROBERSON / The Dallas Morning News
Costs of health insurance have risen seven times faster than incomes in Texas, according to a report released Tuesday.
With President Obama pushing health care reform to the top of his agenda, a report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a nonprofit group promoting healthcare reform, looks at how health care systems in Texas and the rest of the country have performed since the last major reform effort in 1994.
In Texas, the total number of uninsured averaged 4.3 million between 1994 and 1996, compared with 5.7 million between 2006 and 2007.
The total costs in Texas for an individual insurance policy have increased 63 percent — from $2,500 in 1996 to $4,100 in 2006.
Even though employers still pay most of the tab for their workers’ health insurance, the average cost an employee in Texas pays for an individual premium has risen more than seven times faster than median incomes in the state. The amount employees pay for an individual policy has increased 66 percent. Wages have increased just 9 percent over the period, from $31,800 to $34,400, according to the report. |
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