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The annual health care benefit cost trend is expected to grow at 5.7% in 2009, the lowest in more than ten years, according to the preliminary results of Mercer’s National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans 2008. In the first half of the decade, the average increases in health care benefit costs were in the double digits. In 2007, the increase was 6.1% (see Report 422.1.-7). The survey’s complete results are scheduled to be released later this year, with some 3,000 respondents anticipated.:…
The health care reform plans so far proposed by presidential candidates Sens. John McCain (Ariz.) and Barack Obama (Ill.) take significantly different approaches to employer-provided health care plans. This is the first of several installments on the major features of the candidates’ proposals and how they would affect employer provided benefits.…
The Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) has warned in its latest Issue Brief that a recent decrease in the uninsured should not be viewed as an indicator of things to come in 2008.…
Although health care cost and quality “transparency,” or information, is highly desirable and necessary to foster health care consumerism, the system still is a long way from having credible tools, according to an August report from the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC).…
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