Double-Digit Rise in Health Insurance Premiums
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Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance increased an average of 11.2 percent in 2004, marking the fourth consecutive year of a double-digit increase and outpacing the growth in wages and inflation by wide margins, according to a survey released
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The cost of health insurance provided by employers rose an average of 11.2 percent this year and is expected to rise again in 2005, adding to the economic anxiety of workers and businesses.
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A healthcare advocacy group says health insurance premiums paid by US workers rose nearly three times faster than average earnings in the past four years.
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For the second consecutive year, federal employees are getting a big break on their health insurance premiums.
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Health insurance premiums for  workers are rising around three times faster than their wages,  and health costs eat up a quarter of earnings for more than 14  million Americans, according to a survey on Tuesday.
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Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums increased an average of 11.2% in 2004 -- less than last yearâs 13.9% increase, but still the fourth consecutive year of double-digit growth, according to the 2004 Annual Employer Health Benefits Survey
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Health insurance costs are going up, and up, and up. And in some cases, up some more. Premiums for employer-sponsored plans rose by 11.
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Neither candidate can dispute these facts: 45 million Americans are without health insurance while health care premiums skyrocket, up 64 percent, since 2000.
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Premiums for job-based health insurance jumped 11.2 percent on average this year across the nation, according to a survey released Thursday, the latest evidence of a painful rise in medical costs that is placing an increasingly heavy burden on employers
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Retirees who receive health benefits from their former employers saw premiums shoot up an average of 25 percent this year, a new study says.
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Health-insurance premiums paid by US employers rose 11.2 percent this year, five times as fast as wages, according to a study that may reinforce voters&#39; concerns over rising medical costs.
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Health insurance premiums rose five  times faster than U.S. workers' salaries this year, according  to a survey released on Thursday that also showed slippage in  the percentage of American workers covered by employer health  plans.
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HMO premiums in New York City soared over the past year by as much as 35 percent, boosting subscribers&#39; health-care costs by hundreds â-nd sometimes thousands â -dollars, The Post has learned.
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Medicare premiums for doctor visits are going up a record &#36;11.60 a month next year. The Bush administration says the increase reflects a strengthened Medicare, while Democrats complain that seniors are being unfairly socked.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Thursday that President Bush has failed to hold down rising health care costs during his four years in office, citing a new report that showed a double-digit increase in insurance premiums for the fourth
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Medicare premiums for doctor visits will rise about 17.4 percent next year, the Bush administration said yesterday. The $11.60-a-month increase is the largest in the program&#39;s 40-year history.
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CHICAGO: Health insurance premiums rose five times faster than US workersâ salaries this year, according to a survey released last Thursday that also showed slippage in the percentage of American workers covered by employer health plans.