In it he said that last year, health insurance premiums went up 15%, then asked "How many families' income went up 15% as well to make up for that?"
It's a fine rhetorical question, but the math is wrong: only part of a family's income goes toward paying health insurance premiums, so the total income needs to go up by a smaller percentage to keep everything else equal.
To illustrate with some completely made-up numbers: let's say a family makes $50,000 and spent $10000 of that on health insurance in 2007, leaving $40,000 for everything else. Premiums went up by 15%, or $1500, which means that in 2008, they had to pay $11500.
So in order to have the same $40,000 to spend on everything else, their total income would have to go from $50,000 to $51,500. That's an increase of 3%, not 15%.
