Consumer health costs set to surge
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Prepare to dedicate more of your budget to healthcare: The nation is expected to be spending $1 of every $5 on it by the end of the decade.
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Groups representing most facets of the nation's health care system are lining up in support of a large spending increase for a popular children's insurance program.
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If this year follows the pattern of recent history, the most common change most workers will see is a rise in the cost of health insurance.
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Health premiums rose five times faster  than U.S. workers' salaries this year, according to a survey  released on Thursday, a trend analysts said is likely to throw  more people into the ranks of the uninsured.
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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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Free personal and nursing care appears to be costing much more than expected, according to executive figures.
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(National-NBC) Sept. 13, 2004 - Health care costs are on the rise, and American workers are feeling the effects, according to a new survey.
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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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As Florida was cleaning up yesterday from its fourth hurricane in six weeks, insurance executives and analysts said they expected the cost of coverage to rise sharply for millions of homes and businesses in the state.
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Onus is on workers to buy health insurance as rising costs force firms to end perk.
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Thousands of people could be paying for health care when the NHS should be footing the bill, it is thought.
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Retirees shouldered a much larger share of their health-care costs in 2004 and should expect to pay even more next year, says a new report that casts an even dimmer outlook for people who are still in the workforce.
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People in a new kind of health plan that makes consumers pay for a bigger share of their care appear to be more cost-conscious than those in traditional plans, but half say they would switch if they had the chance, according to a survey released yesterday.
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WASHINGTON -- Consumer prices rose by a bigger-than-expected amount in January, reflecting big increases in the cost of food and health care, the government reported Wednesday.
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Employers&#39; healthcare costs are expected to increase by an average of 11.3 percent in 2005, which outpaces inflation but is lower than 12.
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Health plan fees are soaring and many of the nationâs early retirees are having a hard time paying the bills.
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The costs of the Medicare and  Medicaid health insurance programs are rising at unsustainable  rates that will force policy makers to adopt major changes to  curb spending, the head of the Congressional Budget Office  warned on Monday.