Datafile Name: Emerald
Story Names: Rising Health Care Costs
Reference: The Columbus Dispatch. (1993, June 8). Data computed from an advertisement for Emerald Health Network, Inc.
Description: Datafile contains Emerald Health Network, Inc's claim costs from 1986 to 1992. For comparison, the unadjusted Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers (CPI-U) is also given along with the medical care component of the CPI (for both these indexes the base year was 1982 when the value is set to 100).
Number of cases: 7
Variable Names:
  1. year: Year
  2. Emerald_costs: Claim costs
  3. CPI-U: Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers
  4. CPI-med_care: CPI for the medical care component
The Data: 
year	Emerald_costs	CPI-U	CPI-med_care
1986	176	110.5	125.7
1987	180.9	115.4	132.7
1988	198.7	120.5	141.9
1989	208.0	126.1	154.1
1990	204.7	133.8	169.3
1991	215.1	137.9	182.8
1992	229.0	142.0	195.2