Survey says U.S. households in 2010 greatly increased health care costs by 14%
YORK September 3 morning news, the U.S. non-profit organization Kaiser Family Foundation (Kaiser Family Foundation) report released Thursday, the U.S. health care costs the family a substantial increase over last year by 14%.
report showed U.S. home insurance premiums this year, the project grew only 3% of medical costs because of substantial growth, cost-conscious insurance companies will shift more to the employees themselves. Reported that employees in 2010 for the purchase of home insurance products cost about 4,000 dollars, 482 U.S. dollars more than last year; companies still bear most of the cost of insurance for a family of four close to 9,800 U.S. dollars to pay the premiums, but slightly less than in 2009.
Kaiser Family Foundation said that in the past 5 years, premiums paid by employees in the proportion of the total cost has increased by 47%; compared with the overall premium growth over the same period 27%, 18% wage increase over the same period.
research firm Mathematica Policy Research, Washington senior care industry economist Deborah - Qielai Te (Deborah Chollet) said the economic downturn and turmoil in the job market is to promote a substantial increase in health care costs a major factor. He said: "Employers are cutting costs to maintain the number of employees, and one way is to make employees pay more for health care costs."
benefits consultants Mercer senior consultant Te Laixi - Edwards (Tracy Watts) said, another factor pushing up health care costs is that some young employees to give up to save money to buy insurance products, insurance until they have been. (Civil and military)
