Near-term health trends familiar, irrespective of reform – Employee Benefit News
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By Kathleen Koster
August 4, 2009
As health reform grinds unevenly into congressional recess, employers are not waiting on Washington. Though they’re watching intently for reform to regain traction, life must go on and for many that means a continued shift of health insurance and prescription drug costs to employees, experts postulate…
According to Towers Perrin’s annual Health Care Cost Survey, average health care costs rose by 6% in 2009 and despite the rate of growth remaining on par, employers and their workers faced record-high costs this year. In flat dollar terms, gross health care expenditures rose by an average of $532 per employee, to an average total cost of $9,552.
Near-term health trends familiar, irrespective of reform – Articles – Employee Benefit News
