Health Insurance Costs Soar, Workers Hit
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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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GREENVILLE -- Medical lawsuits are one of the driving forces behind skyrocketing health care costs. That&#39;s according to Secretary Tommy Thompson, of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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Employers' 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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As rising health-care costs hurt workers and retirees alike, America's trade unions are seen inching toward a broad-sweeping agreement with U.S. corporations on health-care reform.
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To cope with rising health care costs, companies are asking current retirees to pay more for health insurance and some are telling future retirees to do without, according to a study released yesterday.
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Numerous media reports have indicated big increases for Medicare and employer-sponsored health insurance premiums and for the number of Americans lacking health insurance.
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The health insurer beats some estimates and raises others.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Alex Chadwick talks to Bob Moon of Marketplace about a new study showing that in 2004, health insurance premiums rose five times faster than the salaries of US workers.
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Health care costs for employers in the US will increase by and average of 11.3 percent in 2005, according to human resources services firm Hewitt Associates.
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CHICAGO: Health insurance premiums rose five times faster than US workersâ salaries this year, according to a survey released last Thursday that also showed slippage in the percentage of American workers covered by employer health plans.
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Employer health care costs are expected to rise 11.3% in 2005, according to an analysis by consultant Hewitt Associates, the Detroit Free Press reports (Norris, Detroit Free Press, 10/12).
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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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Groups representing most facets of the nation's health care system are lining up in support of a large spending increase for a popular children's insurance program.
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he number of people without health insurance rose by 1.4 million, to a record 45 million last year, amid rising costs for coverage and a continuing fall-off in the number of workers in
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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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Employers are facing continued double-digit increases in health care costs in 2005 and likely will require their workers to pay an even greater share of the bill, according to a new survey of more than 900 firms.    The survey, released Thursday by Mercer Human Resource Consulting, found that employers expect health care costs to rise 12.9 percent on average next year if they leave benefits unchanged...
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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.