Health Care Costs

The cost of health care will continue to rise at 6% annually as it has since 2007; this rate is roughly twice the official rate of US inflation. These are the finding of a survey conducted by the National Business Group on Health; which looked at over 300 companies (mostly large) and found that over 30% of companies have revamped their healthcare policies recently, with another 30% planning to do so in 2009. 62% percent of  companies remain very confident that they can provide health care to their employees, though that is down from 73% last year. In 2008 it cost an average of 7,173$ per employee that is expected to jump to 7,400$ in 2009. For more details click here.