"Higher prices charged by hospitals, outpatient centers and other providers drove up health-care spending at double the rate of inflation during the economic downturn – even as patients consumed less medical care over all."

after all this :

by today

"On average.... employers contributed 58 percent, or $12,144, to the total cost of $20,728, through contributions to their employees’ health insurance premiums."

" The family itself contributed another 25 percent, or $5,114, toward the premium via direct payroll deduction."

" In addition, families  spent 17 percent, or $3,470, out of pocket for health care"


yup over 20 k total and over 8k from payroll income and out of pocket  per family

the response
thanx to potus barry

we got  ....not  emergency price controls ......nope

we got ...a universal mandate

consider this:

"over the longer haul
 the bulk
and possibly all of the ostensibly employer-paid health insurance premiums
 gets indirectly shifted back
 into the employee’s paycheck
 through lower increases in take-home pay.

notice the 2010 estimated.distribution of money income
among households in the United States.

"Only 10 percent had a money income of $140,000 or more. "

data compiled by the great uwe