Health costs, gas prices and midterm politics

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHealth insurance costs keep climbing for American workers.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorKFF's annual survey says employees now pay an average of seven thousand four hundred seventy-one dollars a year toward family coverage, up about nine percent, or six hundred twenty-one dollars, from last year.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThat's a used laptop every year, just for the privilege of being covered. And at a small business with ten to ninety-nine workers, you typically pay a bigger share.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorGas prices are dragging on Republicans' midterm hopes, the Guardian reports.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe national average hit four dollars and thirty-seven cents on October ninth, up forty-seven percent since late February, according to CBS News data.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorForty-seven percent. Your car now costs more to feed than a teenager.