Health premiums rise 7.7%
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Increases in health insurance premiums for working families slowed for the third straight year in 2006, but still rose at a rate more than double that of inflation and growth in workers' pay, an annual nationwide survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows.
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Health insurer WellPoint Inc  said on Wednesday that third-quarter profit rose 7 percent, helped by higher membership and improved control of operating costs.
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A new study provides further evidence that health insurance is getting more expensive. It says family premiums in employer-sponsored health plans have jumped 11.
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Health premiums rose five times faster than US workers&#39; salaries this year, according to a survey released on Thursday, a trend analysts said is likely to throw more people into the ranks of the uninsured.
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Health-insurance premiums paid by US employers rose 11.2 percent this year, five times as fast as wages, according to a study that may reinforce voters&#39; concerns over rising medical costs.
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Federal officials say rising costs, increased payments and some new benefits mean Medicare must raise its Part B premium 17% next year for most of the nearly 42 million seniors and disabled people covered by the program.
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Numerous media reports have indicated big increases for Medicare and employer-sponsored health insurance premiums and for the number of Americans lacking health insurance.
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The cost of health insurance premiums in the US rose three times faster than earning over the past four years, according to a report released today from the nonprofit Families USA.
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Most elderly and disabled people on Medicare will see their premiums rise to $93.50 a month next year, a 5.6 percent increase that is much lower than had been anticipated.
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Health insurance premiums rose five  times faster than U.S. workers' salaries this year, according  to a survey released on Thursday that also showed slippage in  the percentage of American workers covered by employer health  plans.
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Health insurance premiums for  workers are rising around three times faster than their wages,  and health costs eat up a quarter of earnings for more than 14  million Americans, according to a survey on Tuesday.
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A healthcare advocacy group says health insurance premiums paid by US workers rose nearly three times faster than average earnings in the past four years.
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TORONTO - Ontario will get an additional $7 billion for health care under the agreement reached, early Thursday morning, between the prime minister and the premiers and territorial leaders.
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The cost of employer-paid health insurance jumped an average of 11.2 percent in 2004, the fourth straight year of double-digit increases, with both businesses and employees
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More than 47 million Americans will get a 2.7 percent increase in their Social Security checks starting in January, meaning an additional &#36;25 per month for the typical retiree. But almost half of that gain will be gobbled up by a record increase in Medicare premiums.
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Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums rose 11.2 percent this year, registering the fourth consecutive double-digit annual increase and pushing the cost of family coverage under the most common type of plan past $10,000, according to a new survey.
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Employer health care costs are expected to rise 11.3% in 2005, according to an analysis by consultant Hewitt Associates, the Detroit Free Press reports (Norris, Detroit Free Press, 10/12).