Health Insurance Costs Rise Faster Than Wages
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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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Medicare patients&#39; monthly premiums for outpatient care will jump a record $11.60 next year, while deductibles for hospitalized patients will rise $36, the biggest jump in 14 years.
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Health plan costs are expected to rise at a slightly faster rate in 2008, after three years of flat growth, according to preliminary results of a new survey.
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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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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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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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Health care costs grew faster than the overall economy in the first half of this year, according to a study released Thursday. Although the increase
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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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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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Net income rose to $496.7 million and the health insurer raised its full-year forecast as membership increased.
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Health insurance may be out of reach for more Americans as medical costs rose faster than worker income in the first half of the year, according to a closely watched survey released on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON -- Indiana workers and those in 34 other states saw health insurance premiums rise nearly three times faster than average earnings in the past four years, a study based on federal data shows.
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A worsening shortage of doctors, insurance premium costs growing faster than incomes, a gray and sick population scattered over a rural state - darker days lie
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Health-care costs are expected to rise more than 11 percent for US employers in 2005, the fifth consecutive year of double-digit increases, and little relief is expected in the next five years
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Health insurance may be out of reach  for more Americans as medical costs rose faster than worker  income in the first half of the year, according to a closely  watched survey released on Thursday.
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Health insurance premiums are skyrocketing at five times the rate of inflation and worker earnings. Employers are shuttling more and more costs of health care onto their workers or dropping coverage (for 5
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Employers face continued double-digit increases in health-care costs in 2005 and likely will require their workers to pay an even greater share of the bill, according to a new survey of more than 900 companies.