{"id":5271,"date":"2005-09-15T12:31:12","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T16:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/5271.html"},"modified":"2005-09-15T12:31:12","modified_gmt":"2005-09-15T16:31:12","slug":"its-completely-non-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/its-completely-non-sustainable\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It’s completely non-sustainable’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The good news is health care premiums only rose a little<\/strike> a lot, but less than in recent years. The bad news is the average cost for a family health insurance policy is nearly $11,000<\/a> — and, according to the non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation, rising health care costs are pricing more consumers and employers out of coverage. (Thanks to Phil for the tip.)<\/p>\n

This year, the average annual premium for family coverage hit $10,880, with employers paying an average of 74% of that cost and workers paying the rest. Workers this year paid on average $2,713 toward family coverage, or $1,094 more than they paid five years ago, the survey found. […]<\/p>\n

Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz, speaking at a health costs roundtable sponsored by cable channel CNBC, called on companies to offer health insurance, saying it’s a “moral obligation.” <\/p>\n

Earlier, he told Washington state congressional representatives Starbucks will spend more on health insurance for employees this year than on coffee<\/b>, according to the Associated Press. (emphasis added)<\/p>\n

“It’s completely non-sustainable,” he said, even for companies such as his that “want to do the right thing.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When the nation finally realizes its time to overhaul the healthcare system, don’t be surprised when Big Business takes a refreshingly progressive attitude. The status quo just costs too much, and there’s a cheaper, more efficient way<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The good news is health care premiums only rose a little a lot, but less than in recent years. The bad news is the average cost for a family health insurance policy is nearly $11,000 — and, according to the non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation, rising health care costs are pricing more consumers and employers out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}