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Article: Health Insurance Costs Rising Out of Sight
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- BusinessWest
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
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CopyrightCopyright BusinessWest Oct 01, 2000. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Richard Moriarty, president of Moriarty & Primack, Certified Public Accountants, in Springfield, was shocked to see his company's health insurance rates increase by 19% last June. But he knew he was in good company.
Mary Ellen Canavan, owner of United Personnel Services Inc., says her Springfield-based staffing agency has watched health insurance rate increases outpace sales increases in recent years. And Nancy Urbschat, a principal in TSM Design in
Springfield, laments that health insurance is claiming an increasingly larger part of her small advertising design firm's resources.
Like their counterparts across the state, local business people are feeling more than a bit queasy about ...