Big 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 [...]

By MARK WHITEHOUSE – WALL STREET JOURNAL America’s baby boomers—those born between 1946 and 1964—face a problem that could weigh on the economy for years to come: The longer it takes for the economy to recover, the less money they’ll have to spend in retirement. Policy makers have long worried that Americans aren’t saving enough [...]

No, You Can’t Keep Your Health Plan Insurers and doctors are already consolidating their businesses in the wake of ObamaCare’s passage. By SCOTT GOTTLIEB – Wall Street Journal President Obama guaranteed Americans that after health reform became law they could keep their insurance plans and their doctors. It’s clear that this promise cannot be kept. [...]

All of us who have been paying attention to the health care debate have been hearing the same arguments over and over. I believe the one value of the oft repeated protests is that  Washington does know it has a problem. Many of the voters are very  upset with what they are attempting to do. [...]