The Star-Ledger reports today that health care premiums in New Jersey are growing faster than wages. I doubt anyone is surprised.
What is surprising, however, is that no one quoted in the story mentions real health care reform, instead focusing on reigning in costs as if doing so in a vacuum will have any real impact.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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