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Article: Health Care Cost Increases Remain High: Aon Consulting Study.
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- June 5, 2007
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Current increases are more than four times general inflation rates
CHICAGO, June 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Health care costs are expected to increase on average 11 percent in the next 12 months,(1) according to Aon Consulting, the human capital consulting organization of Aon Corporation . While costs continue to rise at double-digit rates, the current trend rate has declined more than four percentage points since fall 2001, when the projection was 15.6 percent.
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Aon Consulting surveyed more than 70 leading health care insurers (representing more than 100 million insured ...