Retiree Health Costs Shoot Up as Do Employers&#39;
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Few Employers Say They Will Drop Coverage In 2006 When Medicare Drug Law Is Implemented - As businesses struggle to control rising retiree health costs, they are asking their retirees to pay more and plan to do so again in 2005, according to a new survey
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Prices for about 200 prescription drugs in the United States commonly used by seniors rose nearly twice the rate of inflation, a seniors group said on Tuesday, making a case for letting the government negotiate drug prices.
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The cost of living adjustment intended to help more than 47 million Social Security recipients keep up with inflation is expected to be a tad larger in 2005 than it was this year, but the bad news is that much of the increase will be eaten up by higher Medicare premiums.
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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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he cost of providing health care to employees has risen 11.2 percent this year, according to the results of an authoritative national survey reported yesterday.
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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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The cost of employee health coverage rose 7.7 percent this year, more than double the overall inflation rate and well ahead of the increase in the incomes of 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 for more than 14  million Americans, according to a survey on Tuesday.
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Health insurance costs for Arkansas workers rose nearly 40 percent in the past four years - growing more than three times faster than average yearly wages in the same period, according to a national study released Tuesday.
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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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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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Employee health insurance premiums shot up 11.2 percent in 2004, the fourth straight year of double-digit growth, a new survey found.
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WASHINGTON - Medicare premiums for doctor visits are going up a record $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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Employers&#39; health premiums rose 11.2 percent this year, according to a benchmark study released yesterday that reinforces voter concerns about the US healthcare system.
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The nation&#39;s health-care cost increases rose sharply again this year, according to global human resources services firm Hewitt Associates, and Phoenix was no exception.
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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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HE new, sharply higher charges announced for Medicare beneficiaries last week may prompt more elderly people to join Medicare health maintenance organizations operated by private industry