claim: health insurance premiums "have almost doubled ... since 2000."
author: hillary clinton
evidence_1: may 23, 2017 ... washington, d.c. – the department of health and human services (hhs) released a new analysis today that shows premiums have doubled for individual health insurance plans since 2013, the year before many of obamacare's regulations and mandates took effect. the analysis is based on data ...
evidence_2: sep 11, 2012 ... health insurance costs workers almost twice what it did in 2002 even though premiums have grown more slowly since 2007, according to a new survey of more than 2,000 employers. the average total cost of a family health insurance plan reached $15,745 this year, an increase of 4 percent since 2011, ...
evidence_3: feb 6, 2015 ... republicans say the average family health insurance premium has increased by $4,154 under president obama. ... 2014 report on its survey explains how the recent growth is low compared with the early 2000s: “family premiums have increased 69% since 2004 and have more than doubled since 2002.
evidence_4: or about 20% of gdp. by contrast, most major industrialized nations spend 8% to 10% of their gross domestic product on health care. ✓ employer-sponsored health insurance premiums have nearly doubled since 2000, a rate three times faster than wages. (kaiser family foundation). ✓ bankruptcies attributable to medical ...
evidence_5: 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 ...