re: Thomas Gallatin: Obama Doubled Your Healthcare Premium

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Nope. One is a portion of the price. The other is the entirety of the cost. If were measuring cost, measuring a portion of it isn't "context".

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You just said nothing that was not already covered.

Total costs is important for contextualizing certain things, so you don't want to ignore it. But when a person, like the OP and the person this conversation has stemmed from, begins talking about the consumer impact of premium rises, and throws in things like employer based insurance premiums(another wrench to this discussion due to tax subsidies and employer contribution changes) quoting total costs with what his out-of-pocket premiums, without providing more context is highly misleading. either intentionally or through ignorance. I would add ignoring the context of pre-ACA trends is also poor form.

Had this been a blog post simply about raw prices and unadjusted consumer costs, ignoring that context would be fine. But it wasn't.

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is that what you think that was?

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It's what it always is with you.