Citing Higher Costs, U.S. Plans Record Rise in Medicare Premium
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The announcement of the record increase came a day after President Bush heralded his efforts to help the elderly with medical expenses.
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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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Wider coverage for expensive  implanted heart devices likely will cost the U.S. Medicare  program for seniors about $2 billion over five years, the  program's administrator said on Thursday.
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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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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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Premiums for employer-sponsored health plans rose an average of 11.2 percent in 2004, the fourth consecutive year of double-digit growth, according to a study released Thursday by the Washington, DC-based Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and
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Health insurance costs are going up, and up, and up. And in some cases, up some more. Premiums for employer-sponsored plans rose by 11.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Thursday that President Bush has failed to hold down rising health care costs during his four years in office, citing a new report that showed a double-digit increase in insurance premiums for the fourth
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Brand-name drug prices jumped nearly 4 percent during the first three months of the year, raising costs for taxpayers subsidizing the Medicare drug program and for some of those participating in it, AARP said Tuesday.
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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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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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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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The dramatic increase in health-care spending in the United States since 1960 is a major reason that Americans are living longer, making the world's most expensive health-care system a good value despite its high costs, according to an academic study being released today.
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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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Social Security benefits for more than 47 million Americans will increase 2.7 percent next year, the government announced today. But higher Medicare premiums will take
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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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WASHINGTON - Medicare premiums for doctor visits will rise 17 percent next year, the Bush administration said Friday. The $11.60-a-month increase is the largest in the program's 40-year-history...