Why health care eats more of your paycheck every year : expressnews

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Why health care eats more of your paycheck every year

Why health care eats more of your paycheck every year

Why health care eats more of your paycheck every year Don't expect that to change soon, experts sayPhoto: Pablo Martinez Monsivais, STF / Associated Press FILE - This Oct. 24, 2016, file photo, shows the HealthCare.gov...Millions of Americans are finding out this month that the price of their health insurance is going up next year — as it did this year, last year and most years before that.To continue reading this story, you will need to be a digital subscriber to ExpressNews.com.


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Prescription drugs driving health care costs in NH

Prescription drugs driving health care costs in NH

CONCORD — Skyrocketing prescription drug prices are the major driver of increased health-care costs in New Hampshire, according to data for 2015 presented by the state Insurance Department at its annual meeting.More than $1 billion was spent on prescription drugs by patients and insurance companies in the state last year, with 15 scripts per person on average, according to Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny, who introduced the presenters at Friday's day-long presentation.The cost of in-patient services in the state declined by 4.9 percent from 2014 to 2015, but the cost of prescription drugs rose 8.7 percent in the same period.


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Don't blame Obamacare for higher health care costs

Don't blame Obamacare for higher health care costs

This file photo taken on October 1, 2013 shows a woman looking at the HealthCare.gov insurance exchange internet site in Washington, DC.Americans will see Obamacare health insurance costs jump an average of 25% next year.(Photo: AFP/Getty Images)Two weeks in a row, this newspaper has printed letters by people blaming the Affordable Care Act for rising health care costs.


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Americans are spending more on health care — for their pets

Americans are spending more on health care — for their pets

A cat rescued in Detroit was treated at an animal hospital in 2014.(Regina H. Boone/Detroit Free Press via AP)Pets — they're just like us!Or, at least, we Americans try mighty hard to make them so.