美国人对医疗费用和健康保险费用的不断上涨深感担忧。
Americans are deeply concerned about the relentless rise in health care costs and health insurance premiums.
在美国，健康保险费用的大部分则由雇主支付。
S. , which largely relies on employers paying for the bulk of coverage.
但是，日本人均健康保险费用只有美国的一半左右。
Yet Japan spends about half as much on health care per capita as the United States.
所有这一切已经改变，现在你可以扣除你的健康保险费用的100%作为业务经费。
All of this has changed and you now may deduct 100% of your health insurance costs as a business expense.
与此同时，私人健康保险费用——仅去年一年就上升了14%——让越来越多的美国人感到难以承受。
Meanwhile, private health-insurance premiums—which rose by 14 percent last year alone —are becoming unaffordable for ever Americans.
与此同时，私人健康保险费用——仅去年一年就上升了14%——让越来越多的美国人感到难以承受。
Meanwhile, private health-insurance premiums - which rose by 14 percent last year alone - are becoming unaffordable for even Americans.
我最近关于健康保险费用的邮件引起了许多有趣的评论，让我来回复他们，并再分享一些想法。
My recent post on my health insurance rates brought some interesting comments. I'd like to respond to a few and share some further thoughts.
与此同时，私人健康保险费用——仅去年一年就上升了 14% ——让越来越多的美国人感到难以承受。
Meanwhile, private health-insurance premiums — which rose by 14 percent last year alone —are becoming unaffordable for ever Americans.
其中有些利弗莫尔的退休人员的健康保险费用已经每年提高了上千元，这期间保险的质量已经下降了。
Some of the Livermore retirees' health care costs have already risen by thousands of dollars a year, they say, while the quality of the coverage has deteriorated.
在埃斯康蒂多区，有三分之一的雇员们加入这项计划，员工们的补偿费用也下降了34%，而健康保险费用下降20%。
In the Escondido district, where one-third of the employees are in the program, workmen's-compensation claims have dropped 34%, and health-insurance claims are down about 20%.
这对公司也同样具有吸引力。由于员工健康保险费用的增长大大超过了通货膨胀的增长率，公司的不安全感也同个人一样与日俱增。
That appeals to businesses, which, like individuals, are feeling increasingly insecure as the cost of employee health benefits continues to soar well above the rate of inflation.
他与不同的地方性自助组织合作，创立了健康保险计划，该计划覆盖250万人，每人每月大约11美分的保险费用。
He has created a health-insurance scheme, working with various local self-help groups, that covers 2.5m people for a premium of about 11 cents a month each.
他说的很直接：“我并不指望有免费的健康保险，我只是希望保险费用能降低到我能负担的水平。”
He wrote, simply: "I am not looking for free health care, I would just like to get my premiums reduced enough to be able to afford it."
他说的很直接：“我并不指望有免费的健康保险，我只是希望保险费用能降低到我能负担的水平。”
He wrote, simply: "I am not looking for free health care, I would just like to get my premiums reduced enough to be able to afford it."
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