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Where do our health insurance premiums go?
Published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sunday, December 20, 2009 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09354/1022041-109.stm A smaller and smaller percentage actually goes to health care, reports MARC STIER of Health Care for America Now Do you know where your health-insurance premiums go? Fifteen years ago, the answer to that question was easy. Whether you got insurance from a for-profit insurer, a nonprofit insurer or Medicare, the answer would about the same: 95 percent of your premiums (or, in the case of Medicare, your tax dollars) went for health-care benefits. Fast forward to now and things are very different. Continue reading