Fewer companies can afford to offer family coverage, a national ...
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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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Your nest egg may not be big enough to serve your future needs.
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Most of the 9 million uninsured children in the U.S. live in homes where at least one parent works full time. In more than one-quarter of the cases, there are two working parents.
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NEW YORK - The corporate pension crisis seems to be going from bad to worse. First, companies struggled to come up with the money to cover their benefit obligations, and now they want to ditch their plans altogether.
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One or two insurance companies might not have the financial wherewithal to survive this year&#39;s hurricane season in Florida, said several top industry officials and state regulators.
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The modest spending increase that Congress approved for a popular children's health insurance program will maintain coverage for enrolees, but others may be out of luck
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With patients often facing grim prognoses, and insurers relatively powerless to negotiate prices or deny coverage, the cost of treatments have little impact on demand.
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Think your family doesn't qualify? Look again to be sure.
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People who must pay for insurance may now be a majority of the stateâs uninsured, and not all are rushing to get coverage.
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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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Small employers that are only willing to pay one-third of their workers' healthcare insurance premiums can now offer policies through Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Previously, the state's largest health insurer only offered coverage to companies that contributed at least one-half of premium costs.
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About 47 percent of parents in families earning less than $40,000 a year are offered health insurance through their employers &#151; a 9 percent drop during the past decade.
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Sept. 28, 2004 -- Health insurance prices far outstripped wages over the last four years, leaving Americans with less coverage at a far greater cost, according to a study unveiled Tuesday.
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The insurance industry planned to propose a series of steps the companies say would let more individuals obtain coverage.
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With soaring medical costs imperiling Medicare and the federal government&#39;s financial health, Washington needs a straight answer to a key question: Can private companies deliver more medical services for less money than the government-run Medicare program
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The Bush administration is restricting the ability of states to expand Medicaid, in an effort to prevent them from offering coverage to families of modest incomes.
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In areas where there are not enough lines to transmit electricity, utilities sometimes have to buy from costlier power plants nearby.