Workplace health insurance costs leap 11.2%
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The cost of employer-sponsored health insurance rose 11.2 percent in 2004 - the fourth straight year of double-digit growth, according to a survey released Thursday.
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WASHINGTON -- Workers won't find much comfort in the smallest increase in health insurance premiums since 1999. The 7.7 percent increase this year was still more than twice the rate of inflation.
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WASHINGTON - Job-based health insurance premiums jumped an average of 11.2 percent this year, according to a new survey of employers released Thursday.
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The increasing cost of health insurance is putting coverage out of reach for many small to midsize companies and their workers, even though the rise in premiums this year was the lowest increase in eight years.
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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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The cost of employer-sponsored health insurance premiums has increased 6.1 percent this year, below the 7.7 percent increase in 2006, a new report says.
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Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance in the United States are rising five times faster than workers&#39; earnings, a survey released Thursday shows.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Alex Chadwick talks to Bob Moon of Marketplace about a new study showing that in 2004, health insurance premiums rose five times faster than the salaries of US workers.
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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
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Privately insured, low-income workers with chronic medical conditions such as diabetes and asthma are being financially squeezed as employers shift the burden of higher health care costs to employees, a new study found.    The number of such individuals spending more than 5 percent of their income on out-of-pocket medical costs soared 48 percent to 2.2 million people from 2001 to 2003, according to a study released Thursday by the Center for Health System Change...
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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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Premiums for employer-sponsored health plans rose an average of 11.2 percent in 2004, the fourth consecutive year of double-digit growth, according to a study released Thursday by the Washington, DC-based Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and
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Health insurance premiums paid by US workers have risen nearly three times faster than average earnings in the past four years, eroding the income of average Americans, a study based on federal data shows.
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American workers are paying more for their health insurance and getting less than they were four years ago, and the situation is particularly acute in several states important
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Healthcare costs in employer-sponsored plans are expected to rise an average of 8 percent in 2005, the first time the increase has sunk to single digits in the last five years, a new survey said.
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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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Employers watched their health insurance premiums jump 11.2 percent in 2004, lower than last year&#39;s hike of nearly 14 percent but about five times the rate of inflation and the increase in workers&#39; earnings, according to a closely watched annual survey of