Employees Start to Feel the Squeeze of High-Deductible Health Plans

Re:Employees Start to Feel the Squeeze of High-Deductible He... by tptacek on Sunday May 05, 2019 @11:13AM (#19833195)

Oh, for God's sake. The Kaiser foundation just tracks the stat we're actually talking about directly. Here's the numbers for employees covered by group insurance provided by their employers:

    1999  2196 
    2000  2471 12.52%
    2001  2689 8.82%
    2002  3083 14.65%
    2003  3383 9.73%
    2004  3695 9.22%
    2005  4025 8.93%
    2006  4242 5.39%
    2007  4479 5.59%
    2008  4704 5.02%
    2009  4824 2.55%
    2010  5049 4.66%
    2011  5429 7.53%
    2012  5615 3.43%
    2013  5884 4.79%
    2014  6025 2.40%
    2015  6251 3.75%
    2016  6435 2.94%
    2017  6690 3.96%
    2018  6896 3.08%

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Re:Employees Start to Feel the Squeeze of High-Deductible He... by pg_bot on Sunday May 05, 2019 @03:10PM (#19834408)

Can you provide a reference for this data, I'm not 100% sure what I'm looking at. I deleted a previous comment on why I think the data I used is better for analysis but I want to confirm that this is what I think it is before I comment further.

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Re:Employees Start to Feel the Squeeze of High-Deductible He... by tptacek on Sunday May 05, 2019 @03:46PM (#19834606)

It's the chart data from:

https://www.kff.org/interactive/premiums-and-worker-contribu...

I'm sorry for getting snippy, I just couldn't untangle your numbers from your source even after you pointed to the raw XLS you got it from.

If we just stay focused on commercial health care, we don't have to litigate whether the Iraq War (materially) impacted health care costs prior to the ACA. And: this thread is about whether employer shifts to HDHPs and (more broadly) the ACA has impacted those specific costs, not the total government cost of providing all health care services.

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