News Source: Uinta County News
| 2 months ago
Maryland’s health care premiums rose nearly 3 times faster than earnings in the state from 2000 to 2009, according to a report to be released by Familes USA Thursday. Meanwhile, a separate study found that family premiums for employer-based health...
News Source: The Columbus Dispatch
| 2 months ago
When Kathy Eshelman opened her campus-area business 22 years ago, she decided from Day One to provide health insurance to her workers...The cost of employer-provided health insurance has increased 131 percent since 1999, which is double the rate of...
News Source: Chicago-Sun Times
| 2 months ago
Companies paid an average of $9,860 of that expense, while workers paid the remainder, according to the 2009 Employer Health Benefits Survey. Since 1999, premiums have gone up a total of 131 percent, far more rapidly than workers' wages, which have...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| 2 months ago
That's almost twice the number who paid that much in 2007. Drew Altman, president of the Kaiser foundation, said it is the combination of higher health care costs along with the recession and other rising prices that "creates the pain level." Those...
News Source: The Dallas Morning News
| 2 months ago
Families USA, a Washington-based nonprofit, said that family health insurance premiums rose by about 92 percent while median earnings rose by about 20 percent during the 10-year period. "Rising health care costs threaten the financial well-being of...
News Source: Wichita Eagle
| 2 months ago
The Wichita Eagle Family health insurance premiums in Kansas rose more than four times faster than earnings did over the past decade, according to a report released Tuesday by Families USA, a Washington-based health research and advocacy group.