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| Administrator | Workers to pay more for health care You'd think we'd get a break, seeing as we're nurses, eh? Study: Workers to pay more for health care - Yahoo! News Get ready for another hike in copays and deductibles. A survey being released Thursday by the Mercer consulting firm found 59 percent of companies intend to keep down rising health care costs in 2009 by raising workers' deductibles, copays or out-of-pocket spending limits. On average, health care costs will go up by an estimated 5.7 percent next year for both workers and their employers, the study found. That repeats this year's 5.7 percent hike and a 6.1 percent jump in 2007. The growth of health care costs has hovered at around 6 percent since 2005, according to Mercer. While that's down from the double-digit growth in previous years, it's still moving at a faster clip than inflation or workers wages. "It's not something to cheer about, especially since costs are getting passed on to employees," said Blaine Bos, author of the survey. The results were preliminary findings, with about half of the 3,000 large companies surveyed reporting. Preliminary findings for the annual survey have historically been in line with final results. |
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| Re: Workers to pay more for health care I don't take the health insurance that my hospital offers as it SUCKS...lucky my husband was in the Air Force for 20 years and we have his insurance. For not taking the hospital insurance they give me $50 wooohooo. Our vision insurance I do take it's bad also I'd be better off taking what I pay out and saving it then just paying for glasses outright.
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