2008 Health Confidence Survey: Americans Are Battered by Rising Health...

U.S. Newswire;  October 7, 2008 ;     787 words ......affordability of health care, an increase from 36 percent in 2007...nation's health care system as fair (29 percent) or poor...high quality health care (93 percent) and to make health care more affordable (90 percent). -- Strong...

Health Care Rose 6.9 Percent in 2000

AP Online;  January 8, 2002 ;   JANELLE CARTER, Associated Press Writer;   526 words ......of the nation's health care rose 6.9 percent to $1.3 trillion...government says. Health care spending averaged...know, we expect health care costs will continue...there was a 17.3 percent increase in prescription...population ages, health care gradually is ...

2.2 Million Pennsylvanians Are in Families that Will Spend More than 10...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 28, 2007 ;     780 words ......spend more than 25 percent of their pre-tax income on health care costs in 2008...spend more than 10 percent of their pre-tax income on health care costs: * In 2000...spent more than 10 percent of their pre-tax income on health care costs. * Between...

1.2 Million Missourians Are in Families That Will Spend More Than 10...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 28, 2007 ;     787 words ......spend more than 25 percent of their pre-tax income on health care costs in 2008...spend more than 10 percent of their pre-tax income on health care costs: * In 2000...spent more than 10 percent of their pre-tax income on health care costs. * Between...

680,000 Arkansans Are in Families that Will Spend More than 10 Percent of...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 29, 2007 ;     786 words ......spend more than 25 percent of their pre-tax income on health care costs in 2008...spend more than 10 percent of their pre-tax income on health care costs: * In 2000...spent more than 10 percent of their pre-tax income on health care costs. * Between...

Nearly 1.1 Million Minnesotans Are in Families that Will Spend More than...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 19, 2007 ;     787 words ......spend more than 25 percent of their pre-tax income on health care costs in 2008...spend more than 10 percent of their pre-tax income on health care costs: * In 2000...spent more than 10 percent of their pre-tax income on health care costs. * Between...

268,000 Granite Staters Are in Families that Will Spend More than 10...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 29, 2007 ;     787 words ......spend more than 25 percent of their pre-tax income on health care costs in 2008...spend more than 10 percent of their pre-tax income on health care costs: * In 2000...spent more than 10 percent of their pre-tax income on health care costs. * Between...

Health-Care Costs in Massachusetts Exceed U.S. Average by 30...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  October 3, 2000 ;   Kowalczyk, Liz;   378 words ......a decade of managed health care and hospital closings...medical costs are still 30 percent above the national average...calculated that personal health care spending in Massachusetts...person in 1998 -- 30 percent higher than the national...lowered Massachusetts health ...

Health care businesses' income up 5.4 percent

Charleston Gazette;  September 24, 1999 ;     200 words ......hospitals, the increases were 3.0 percent and 3.9 percent in those years. The report said income for taxable...offices and clinics in 1998 was $189 billion, up 5.2 percent. It had risen 3.8 percent a year earlier. Dentists' income rose 6.2 percent to $54 billion and optometrists' receipts ...

Health care costs to rise 15 percent in 2003. (Health Care: Feature...

Westchester County Business Journal;  October 21, 2002 ;     429 words ......double-digit increase in their health care costs, according to...Towers Perrin 2003 Health Care Cost Survey. Based...plans will increase 15 percent on average in 2003...19 percent of their health care costs for employee...2003, compared with 17 percent in 2002. ...

Bipartisan Survey Reveals Health Care Critical to Voters in 2008 Election

U.S. Newswire;  October 14, 2008 ;     787 words ......the election. -- Health care is a top concern for swing voters: 64 percent of women and 56...for their family, health care garnered the most mentions, with 21 percent of respondents saying...accessibility of health care, nearly two in five...access, while only 18 ...

Health Care Spending in U.S. Increases 7.2 Percent

The Washington Post;  September 27, 2001 ;   Ceci Connolly;   639 words ...Health care spending rose 7.2 percent last year -- the...Health Affairs. Health care spending has risen...dropped to about 2 percent during the height...quarter of 2001." Health care premiums rose 8.3 percent last year, although...

New Research Reveals Limits to Millennials' Idealism on Health Care

U.S. Newswire;  October 8, 2008 ;     787 words ......affordable health care; -- Eighty-three percent of millennials...that America's health care system is in...majority (51 percent) were not in support of any health care reforms that...unsupportive (62 percent) of health care reforms that...

EMPLOYERS FACE SUBSTANTIAL HEALTH CARE INCREASES IN 1999 | SCIENTISTS...

Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  December 13, 1998 ;     574 words ......employers can expect health care cost increases of 7 percent to 10 percent...increases of 3.7 percent in 1998, according...estimates hold true, health care costs would rise...predicts 1999 health care cost increases will be 6 percent to 9 percent ...

Health Care Premiums Jump 11.2 Percent

AP Online;  September 10, 2004 ;   THERESA AGOVINO, AP Business Writer;   787 words ......Dateline: NEW YORK Health care costs continued...plans jumped 11.2 percent, the fourth year...AP Graphic) Health care costs continued...plans jumped 11.2 percent, the fourth year...effect of rising health care costs is taking...below the 13.9 percent reported in ...