Big Employers Estimate Health-Care Costs Will Rise 8.9% in 2011
Aug 20th, 2010 | By Charles L. Stanley CFP® ChFC® AIF® | Category: NewsBig Employers Estimate Health-Care Costs Will Rise 8.9% in 2011
By Katherine Hobson – Wall Street Journal
A survey of big employers finds they expect their health-care costs to rise nearly 9% next year and plan to share some of that burden with employees via higher premiums and higher out-of-pocket limits.
The survey included responses from 72 members of the nonprofit National Business Group on Health, which represents large companies such as General Electric, Microsoft and General Motors. It parallels pretty closely another survey on employer health-care costs, by PricewaterhouseCoopers, that we reported on a few months back.
Some tidbits from the report, which you can find on the company’s website:
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