Premium increase to $78.20 a month is largest in 14 years
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As the Labor Day weekend began, federal health officials held a late-afternoon briefing to announce that 42 million disabled and elderly Medicare beneficiaries will be hit with the largest premium increase in 14 years.
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Medicare premiums for doctor visits will rise about 17.4 percent next year, the Bush administration said yesterday. The $11.60-a-month increase is the largest in the program&#39;s 40-year history.
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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
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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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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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Prices paid to US producers rose 1.7 percent last month, the biggest jump in 14 years, as higher energy and food costs suggested that inflation is picking up with economic demand.
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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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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...
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Retirees who receive health benefits from their former employers saw premiums shoot up an average of 25 percent this year, a new study says.
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Health insurance premiums paid by US workers have risen nearly three times faster than average earnings in the past four years, eroding the income of average Americans, a study based on federal data shows.
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A look back at the telltale signs of Progressive Insurance's meteoric rise.
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Health-insurance premiums are up by double digits for the fourth straight year. And Chuck Mott, like millions of other small-business
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The cost of insurance is set to rise as new rules governing the industry come into force on Friday.
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New offer is 20% above earlier approach.
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Federal officials say rising costs, increased payments and some new benefits mean Medicare must raise its Part B premium 17% next year for most of the nearly 42 million seniors and disabled people covered by the program.
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Most elderly and disabled people on Medicare will see their premiums rise to $93.50 a month next year, a 5.6 percent increase that is much lower than had been anticipated.
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Sept. 9, 2004 -- Employee-sponsored health insurance premiums rose an average of 11.2% between spring 2003 and spring 2004, now averaging just under $10,000 per year for the average worker with a family of