Employees beware: Higher healthcare costs ahead
 

Obama haters and tea bag haters... have at it!

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Large employers expect big increases in healthcare costs in 2012, and say they'll pass more and more of those costs on to their workers. That's the result of a new survey by the National Business Group on Health, a trade group for these large companies.
"It's a huge burden on businesses and employers," says Helen Darling, the group's president.

"Healthcare costs continue to gallop along at over seven percent." Members say they expect their 2012 costs to be 7.2 percent above their 2011 costs, which are trending 7.4 percent above 2010 costs. (Separately, Standard & Poor's reported more modest increases in actual healthcare costs. The average per capita cost of healthcare services covered by commercial insurance and Medicare programs increased by 5.61 percent over the 12 months ending in June 2011. Click here to see the study: http://link.reuters.com/mup33s)

http://news.yahoo.com/employees-bewa...184709897.html

The US doesn't have health care, we have insurance care.


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Its happens every year

Higher insurance costs... you mean.

That's a shame.

What was the excuse before obama when they raised 9 out of the 10 yrs i had health ins?

Glad to hear, no change.

These increases should gain health insurance companies even more public support!

Change you can believe in.

Health care is an inflated industry with heavy pockets and pays politicians to look the other way. A few attorneys general need to look into their shit and sue the fuck out of them.

Don't be silly, Sly. Obamacare fixed that problem

I was gonna say... Has healthcare costs ever gone down?

My health insurance (Anthem aka Blue Cross) just raised my premium by 25% which is about 8 times the inflation rate. And I went to my doctor exactly once in the last year.

But I'm really looking forward to my next 25% increase--these increases are nasty but not as nasty as Socialism or Communism, or whatever it's called when social costs like health care are shared throughout the whole population.

Has the cost of living in general ever gone down?