The Cost Of Not Fixing Health Care


Some people want to keep us from organizing our government to provide a control on health care costs.

Some prefer to leave it to the ‘free’ market which is exempt from anti-trust provisions. Some ‘free’ market.

Total real compensation per worker excluding health care benefits in 2009 was about $46,000. Adding a Health care benefit added about $10,000.

By 2039, the compensation excluding health care is projected to be a little over $60,000. Adding a Health care benefit added about $40,000.

Do you want 40% of your total compensation to consist of your health care insurance premiums? If so, keep putting roadblocks in the way of solving the health care crisis. This is what you get from the ‘free’ market.

The abovr graph comes from my extraction of graphs from the Economic Report Of The President – February, 2010.  My extraction of graphs also has a link to the report itself.

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