Wednesday, December 12, 2012

STUDY: Workers’ Health Care Costs Are Surging While Their Wages Stagnate

STUDY: Workers’ Health Care Costs Are Surging While Their Wages Stagnate: Adding to the ongoing indictment of unfair cost-sharing in employer-sponsored health insurance, a new study from the Commonwealth Fund finds that employees’ contributions to health plans has skyrocketed — even though wages haven’t. According to the report, workers in every single state have seen their health care contributions to family health plans increase by 74 [...]/p