This is hardly a surprise...
...to anyone who actually buys their own health care. Mine has been going up consistently for decades, and at a far greater rate over the last several years. While the President promised that my rates would be going down $2500/year 4 years ago, it has instead increased by over 60% in the last 3 years alone. So yes, it's only a matter of time before my premium eclipses my income, which has not increased at nearly such a rate. (I've already forecast the date when it will eclipse my #1 monthly expense, housing)
And as more healthy people find their premiums unaffordable and drop their coverage, the premiums will skyrocket even faster until the entire system collapses. (Which I believe is the real goal of the ironically-named "Affordable Care Act") This will eventually force us into what the Progressives envisioned all along, a "single payer" system like Britain or Canada.
I've always argued that a "single payer" system would be far more advantageous over the massive cluster that the "Affordable Care Act" is. For one thing, without health care to pay for, I can pay off my house. Once my two biggest monthly expenses are disposed of, I can just retire (since the income taxes required to pay for the new system will make working barely worthwhile anyway) and let the people who voted for this morass work to pay for it all like I did all those years.
