Medicare Premiums to Rise Record 17 Pct.
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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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The Bush administration said that Democratic proposals to hold down the scheduled 17 percent increase in Medicare premiums next year would lead to much higher premiums in 2006.
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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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A day after President Bush touted his efforts to help the elderly cope with increased medical expenses, federal officials announced the largest premium increase in the Medicare program&#39;s
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Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums rose 11.2 percent this year, registering the fourth consecutive double-digit annual increase and pushing the cost of family coverage under the most common type of plan past $10,000, according to a new survey.
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Costs of employer-sponsored health plans are expected to climb an average of 8 percent in 2005, the first time in five years increases have been in single digits.
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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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he Medicare premium increase announced last week - the largest in the program&#39;s history - has ratcheted up campaign accusations on both sides.
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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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We shouldn&#39;t have been so shocked when the Bush administration sneaked out the news under cover of the Labor Day weekend that the Medicare Part B monthly premium is rising next year by 17.
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Health insurance premiums rose five  times faster than U.S. workers' salaries this year, according  to a survey released on Thursday that also showed slippage in  the percentage of American workers covered by employer health  plans.
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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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Hit with a record-high increase in Medicare premiums, seniors also are being bombarded with competing claims by the presidential candidates over who to blame.
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US Medicare premiums will increase by 17 percent in 2005, an increase unequaled in the history of medicare. Monthly premiums will increase by $11.
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Amid Social Security debate, this week's news on drug-benefit costs hint at a $27 trillion Medicare obligation.
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A healthcare advocacy group says health insurance premiums paid by US workers rose nearly three times faster than average earnings in the past four years.
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Health insurance premiums rose five times faster than U.S. workers' salaries this year, according to a survey released on Thursday that also showed slippage in the percentage of American workers covered by employer health plans.