Article: Cost emerges a major issue for corporate health plans; Health care cost increases among employers' top worries.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

Article: Employers and government must act to cut health care costs.(Editorial)
Business Insurance;  November 28, 2005 ;     538 words ...THE NEWS ON group health care plan cost increases is both good and bad...news, though, is that health care cost increases still are running substantially...clearly are not enough if health care cost increases are to fall along the...

Article: Health care price hikes fall to eight-year low on cost-shifting efforts.
Business Insurance;  November 21, 2005 ;     700+ words ......GEISEL Group health care plan cost increases continue to ease...In 2005, group health care costs rose by...the slowing of health care inflation that...impact, with cost increases dropping by more...together to slow cost increases, with the ...

Article: HRA-linked plans cut costs for some employers; Change in employee behavior 'at the heart' of controlling health care costs.(Benefits Management)(Health risk assessment)
Business Insurance;  February 7, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Aluminum Inc., health care cost increases had reached the...to 15% annual cost increases that have been typical for group health care plans during the...in holding down health care cost increases. It is a long road...

Article: Health Care Costs Could Spike In 2002.(Brief Article)
National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition;  November 5, 2001 ;     409 words ......companies will receive cost increases of at least 13...economy, skyrocketing health care costs and shrinking...containing healthcare cost is becoming a top...Bruner, manager of health care management with...16% rise in their health care bills, the largest...to ...

Article: Health care cost hikes continuing.(News)
Business Insurance;  October 14, 2002 ;     700+ words ......brace for even bigger health care cost increases in 2003 than this year...drug coverage. Just as health care cost increases have become painfully...believe that double-digit health care cost increases will continue indefinitely...

Article: Responding to Rising Health Care Costs - the Good, the Bad, the Ugly and the Future.
Employee Benefit Adviser;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Health care costs continue to...major factors in cost increases is higher premiums...show the following cost increases: Cost Increase Percent...other out-of-pocket health care costs 50% How Americans respond to cost increases has a big impact on the ...

Article: Responding to Rising Health Care Costs - the Good, the Bad, the Ugly and the Future Health care costs continue to escalate, forcing Americans to make changes in behaviors. Many of these changes reach well beyond simple.
Employee Benefit News;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Health care costs continue to...major factors in cost increases is higher premiums...show the following cost increases: Cost Increase Percent...other out-of-pocket health care costs 50% How Americans respond to cost increases has a big impact on the ...

Article: Abating health care costs keep rate hikes in single digits; Cost-shifting, insurer profits and health promotion programs slowing increases to about 7% to 9.(Spotlight: Midyear Market Report)
Business Insurance;  July 4, 2005 ;     700+ words ......JERRY GEISEL Health care plan cost increases are continuing...Worldwide's group and health care practice. Cost increases are abating...optimism that cost increases can be kept to...years ago, when health care inflation was...

Article: A new approach to control health care costs.(Focus: health care)(Health Reimbursement Arrangement)
Westchester County Business Journal;  August 18, 2003 ;     608 words ......again face double-digit health care cost increases, company executives are...freedom and control in seeking health care services. Known as defined...contribution, or consumer-driven, health care plans, this approach gives...in the selection of their health ...

Article: Editorial: Slowing cost hikes are good news.(Opinions)(health care cost increases)
Business Insurance;  October 20, 2003 ;     474 words ...WHO WOULD HAVE thought health care cost increases averaging 12.6% would be considered...perhaps the worst of the runup in health care costs may be over for the near...ever-higher rates of health care cost increases are not inevitable and that...

Article: Group health care costs rising at slower pace; Average '08 increase 6%, Hewitt study finds.(News)(Report)(Brief article)
Business Insurance;  September 22, 2008 ;     290 words ......slowdown in group health care cost increases is easing, but cost...shows. In 2008, group health care costs increased by...factors with keeping cost increases below the levels...diligently manage health care costs through a combination...

Article: Health Care: Market Forces Aren't Enough
The Washington Post;  February 18, 1994 ;     700+ words ......argument in the health care reform debate...necessary because health care cost increases are already slowing...Government's Health Care Cure Really Needed...attributes the lower cost increases to the free play...enough to tame health cost ...

Article: Group health care cost hikes slowing.(health care costs among employees, a survey)
Business Insurance;  October 11, 2004 ;     700+ words ......JERRY GEISEL Cost increases for group health care coverage...offering health care coverage...double-digit cost increases, with the...other hand, cost increases are moderating...year that health care cost increases will have...

Article: Health care costs up 2.5% in 1996.
Business Insurance;  January 20, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Higher cost increases likely to follow Health care plan costs in...though larger cost increases may lie in store...this year. Group health care costs for active...moved into lower-cost managed care...active employees, health care costs for all...1996). ...