real pinch on mid. class families. hold for a moment because i think maybe your microphone fell off. i ll go through a couple charts here. the magic of live television. these are research data that show how much premiums have gone up since the law was passed. 2010 to 2014. the individual premium up 19.3%. and then family premiums up 227.2%. then again we re getting this estimate that tomorrow or next year another 5%. so it s not bending the cost curve but was it more about access? we get the stories all the time there are success stories but we also get stories from people who say i have the exact same coverage i had, it is costing me three times as much. oir have a new policy that s more affordable but my deductible is ridiculous and i don t have access to my doctors. one is costs are going up. when you look at a 20%, 25% increase in your premiums.
one of the main pillars of his argument was, we have to do this in order to ban the cost curve which is happening. the deficit is shrinking. premiums are going to go up, but by not as much as they would have without the affordable care act. was he right to go to affordable care act rather than deal with the economic problem? i agree with david. he did deal with the middle class, and middle-class issues no he didn t. terrific for senator schumer, who is a brilliant political strategist to use hindsight to say, this is what we should have done. the payroll tax cut, which he had a fight with the republicans to extend, was one of the biggest middle class tax cuts there was. and it was actually stimulus. that s why he agreed to the bush tax cuts for the rich, to extend them, because he was thinking about the middle class. so schumer s history is wrong on
i will say that s certainly true of bill clinton and the work of the clinton global initiative. go back and look at jimmy carter and some of the comments about president carter. maybe we weren t so thrilled with him when he was in office, but we really like some of what he s done since. it helps to leave office at a young age. matthew, we put out here how long these things take to take form. but is it too soon to give an initial estimate of how history might look back at president obama? we know he got health care reform through. that s the headline. 100 years of trying and failing and he got it through. what would an initial early, early estimate look like? i think with president obama there are a few things to watch. the first, as you mentioned, is health reform. if in 20, 30 years from now, the so-called cost curve is bent. if the number of uninsured americans is dramatically down and his obama care program is
greater ownership of their own health care and are encouraged to do that in a health plan, their health gets better. they pursue more wellness opportunities. we get them from emergency room care to primary care. also, it bend the cost curve over the long-term, where we re currently working with the administration to see if we might be able to build on the principles of health savings accounts and consumer-driven health care here in the state of indiana. we really think health savings accounts were kind of invented in indiana. 95% of my state employees have health savings accounts. we have the healthy i understand plan. we think it s an idea whose team has come, and we think consumer-driven health care, rather than government driven health care or government mandated health care is the real future of health care in america. you have not confined yourself to issues concerning indiana during a recent trade mission to germany. recently you criticized the way president obama has been hand
greater ownership of their own health care and are encouraged to do that in a health plan, their health gets better. they pursue more wellness opportunities. we get them from emergency room care to primary care. also, it bend the cost curve over the long-term, where we re currently working with the administration to see if we might be able to build on the principles of health savings accounts and consumer-driven health care here in the state of indiana. we really think health savings accounts were kind of invented in indiana. 95% of my state employees have health savings accounts. we have the healthy i understand plan. we think it s an idea whose team has come, and we think consumer-driven health care, rather than government driven health care or government mandated health care is the real future of health care in america. you have not confined yourself to issues concerning indiana during a recent trade mission to germany. recently you criticized the way president obama has been hand