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We've Heard About Health Care Costs...What About College?

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Surging health care costs outdistanced by skyrocketing college tuition.

Measuring Up 2008, the National center for Public Policy and Higher Education's stunning report released last week, not only charts the unreasonable rise in college tuition but exposed another surprising trend as well.

Health care costs have long been a complaint of financially distressed Americans. Now they have something else to be concerned about: since 1982 college tuition has risen at more than twice the rate of health care. While medical costs have increased 210% over the past 26 years, college tuition swelled 439%, according the Measuring Up 2008 study in today's dollars.

This trend between health care and college tuition was first mentioned in a 2007 article in USA Today. The writer also pointed out that "in the past 25 years, the average cost of tuition and fees has risen faster than personal income [and] consumer prices."

by Jeremiah White



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