claim: health care premiums for consumers have doubled since 2001.
author: jay rockefeller
evidence_1: may 24, 2016 ... while employers pay 57 percent of the total health costs, that percentage has  shrunk from 61 percent in 2001. but the milliman medical index report said that  2016's 4.7 percent increase in health-care costs for an average family of four  seen in 2016 marks the lowest rate of increase since the index began in ...
evidence_2: premiums rise in response to health care cost increases. the cost of health care  has been continually rising for several decades, and continues to affect people's  ability to afford health coverage. from 1990 through 2000, combined public and  private spending in the united states nearly doubled from about $696 billion to ...
evidence_3: sep 27, 2011 ... many businesses cite the high cost of coverage as a factor in their decision not to  hire, and health insurance has become increasingly unaffordable for more  americans. over all, the cost of family coverage has about doubled since 2001,  when premiums averaged $7,061, compared with a 34 percent gain in ...
evidence_4: may 1, 2012 ... since 1970, health care spending per capita has grown at an average annual  rate of 8.2% or 2.4 percentage points faster than nominal gdp. .... direct  spending by consumers for all health care goods and services except private  health insurance premiums) increased more in 2010 than in 2009 (1.8% vs.
evidence_5: oct 24, 2016 ... premiums will go up sharply next year under president obama's healthcare law,  and many consumers will be down to just one insurer, the ... moreover, about 1 in  5 consumers will only have plans from a single insurer to pick from, after major  national carriers such as unitedhealth group, humana and ...