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Why health care eats more of your paycheck every year

Why health care eats more of your paycheck every year

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 of the years before that.And it's not just that the price is going up, it's that it goes up faster than wages and inflation, eating away at our ability to pay for other things we want (beer, televisions, vacations) or need (rent, heat, food).Does it have to be this way?


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Issues That Matter: Dr. David Agus, Steven Brill on Obamacare, rising health care costs

Issues That Matter: Dr. David Agus, Steven Brill on Obamacare, rising health care costs

In this installment of our series "Issues That Matter," CBS News contributor Dr. David Agus and Steven Brill, author of "America's Bitter Pill," join "CBS This Morning" to discuss the costly health care issues facing the next president.Skyrocketing premium prices have made the Affordable Care Act a hot topic on the campaign trail.Some states have seen double-digit percentages and by next year, some popular plans will increase by an average of 25 percent – more than three times this year's increase.


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Election could determine fate of religious freedom in health care

Election could determine fate of religious freedom in health care

A pair of Catholic physicians argue that changes in the way health care is paid for and stronger relationships between doctors and their patients will do more to improve people's health and uphold the sanctity of life than bureaucratic government-run programs and expensive insurance policies.Dr. Marguerite Duane, adjunct associate professor of family medicine at Georgetown University, and Dr. Lester Ruppersberger, president of the Catholic Medical Association, also maintain that control over health care must be in the hands of patients and their families rather than any bureaucracy.Both physicians offered their views during an hourlong discussion Nov. 2 in Washington sponsored by Christ Medicus Foundation at the Catholic Information Center called "The Changing Face of Health Care and the 2016 Election."