Health Care Spending Highest in Northeast
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WASHINGTON -- Staying healthy is a costly business in the United States, particularly in the Northeast, government statistics show.
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Health care costs for employers in the US will increase by and average of 11.3 percent in 2005, according to human resources services firm Hewitt Associates.
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Most Americans have gotten sizable life-extending bang for their medical bucks over recent decades, according to a study of health care value.
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The cost of providing health care to employees has risen 11.2 percent this year, according to an authoritative national survey reported Thursday.
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LANCASTER, Pa.  - Excessive eating, smoking and  drinking by Americans was partially responsible for rising  health care costs causing a drag on the U.S. economy, Treasury  Secretary John Snow said on Tuesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- The national hand-wringing over rapidly rising health-care costs generally ignores one point that at least some people find hard to miss: Many patients are getting much better results for their money than they did in the past.
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The dramatic increase in health-care spending in the United States since 1960 is a major reason that Americans are living longer, making the world's most expensive health-care system a good value despite its high costs, according to an academic study being released today.
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The Red Sox and Patriots aren't the only Massachusetts winners this fall. Each of the state's top four nonprofit health plans took high honors in an annual ranking of health insurance companies in the United States. For the third year running, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care was named the best health insurance company in the country, according to rankings compiled by ...
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A handful of conditions such as mental illness, stroke, diabetes and lung disease accounted for much of the huge increase in health-care spending dating back to the late 1980s, US researchers said on Wednesday.
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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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The quest to save dollars in the nationâs $2.1 trillion annual health care bill is becoming a lucrative market of its own.
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Dec. 14, 2004 - Some of America&#39;s largest employers saw the cost of covering medical care for former workers go up about 25% between 2003 and 2004, continuing a trend that analysts warn is threatening the
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Respiratory ailments, mental trauma and other problems that arose after the Sept. 11 attacks are costing the U.S. health care system $393 million per year, according to an analysis that city officials released Tuesday.
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A detailed breakdown of NHS spending shows money is reaching key health priority, the government says.
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The cost of providing health care to employees has risen 11.2 per cent this year, according to the results of an authoritative national survey.
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A mushrooming number of poor people who need medical care will push up the state&#39;s Medicaid costs another $119 million next fiscal year.
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With the rising cost of health care and over 45-million Americans uninsured, many believe America&#39;s healthcare system needs work.