Healthcare costs: big woe for small firms
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Health-insurance premiums are up by double digits for the fourth straight year. And Chuck Mott, like millions of other small-business
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The private health insurance industry says independent economic modelling shows Labor&#39;s Medicare Gold policy would be too expensive in the long-term.
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NEW YORK  - The costs of caring for elderly people with diabetes, a growing population, are threatening to overwhelm the system designed to pay for their medical care, according to a new analysis of Medicare claims.
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Free personal and nursing care appears to be costing much more than expected, according to executive figures.
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Sept. 10, 2004 -- American workers&#39; soaring health care costs could have a one small upside: They seem to be spurring companies to get more serious about worker health in a desperate bid to save money.
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As a new enrollment period gears up, employers are bracing for how much it is going to cost to cover their workers&#39; health. Although insurance premiums are expected to rise at a slower rate than
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Facing cutthroat competition, escalating expenses, and declining revenues, some of the region&#39;s hospitals are trying to boost their bottom lines by offering
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* Increases of 6 to 7 percent in premiums -- and more in small firms.
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Consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) are coming, as businesses shift costs to employees.
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Out-of-pocket costs may be causing millions of older adults in the U.S. to cut back on prescriptions for conditions as serious as diabetes, asthma and depression, a new study suggests.
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Lack of access to routine, quality health care led to as many as 79,000 deaths and $1.8 billion in avoidable medical costs in 2003, according to a new report from a private health care advocacy group.
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Small manufacturers in the UK are struggling in the face of soaring oil prices and higher interest rates, the CBI says.
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Staying healthy is a costly business in the United States, particularly in the Northeast, government statistics show.
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Many lack health insurance because of its cost and a big reason for that cost is the explosion of expensive, medically questionable care.
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NEW YORK  - Out-of-pocket costs may be  causing millions of older adults in the U.S. to cut back on  prescriptions for conditions as serious as diabetes, asthma and  depression, a new study suggests.
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As rising health costs erode profits, U.S. corporations are expected to warm up to health care reform under the next president -- a prospect that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.
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Workers in small businesses are less likely to receive health insurance from their employers, as premiums rose by 11.2% over the last year.