Arkansas health care costs outpace worker wages, study shows
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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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The cost of health care in Memphis increased by 22.6% this year, topping the list of major metro areas surveyed by Lincolnshire, Ill.
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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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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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With the rising cost of health care and over 45-million Americans uninsured, many believe America&#39;s healthcare system needs work.
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American workers are paying more for their health insurance and getting less than they were four years ago, and the situation is particularly acute in several states important
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When Robert Payne, 61, needed back surgery last year, he said he wasn't worried about how to pay for it. Payne, a self-employed architect in Richmond, pulled $5,500 -- the amount of his health insurance deductible for such procedures -- from a savings account he uses exclusively for medical expenses. His insurance covered the rest.
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Retirees for a third straight year are paying double-digit increases for healthcare coverage through their former employers, which are shifting a greater share of the cost to new retirees, according to a study released yesterday.
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Increases in health insurance premiums for working families slowed for the third straight year in 2006, but still rose at a rate more than double that of inflation and growth in workers' pay, an annual nationwide survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows.
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American workers are paying more for their health insurance and getting less than they were four years ago, and the situation is particularly acute in several states important in the presidential race, said a consumer group that has been critical of
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OTTAWA - Stress from high workloads is costing Canada&#39;s health-care system up to $14 billion a year in additional costs, according to a new federal study.
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The cost of employer-paid health insurance jumped an average of 11.2 percent in 2004, the fourth straight year of double-digit increases, with both businesses and employees
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WASHINGTON - The cost of treating heart and lung disease and mental disorders led the upward push in US health care spending, according to a study examining cost jumps by medical condition.
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Health insurance in Colorado has eased its staggering climb in 2004, growing just 7.8 percent to an average of $6,769 per worker. A study from Mercer Human Resource Consulting
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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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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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WASHINGTON - Job-based health insurance premiums jumped an average of 11.2 percent this year, according to a new survey of employers released Thursday.