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Health Care Crisis
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Health care costs are soaring and employees don't want to pay, leaving CEOs with one very expensive problem.
Mention "heath care" to the CEO of any large company and the prevailing reaction is an outpouring of frustration. And for good reason. Continuing a trend of double-digit increases, health insurance premiums rose an average of 14 percent last year and are expected to jump by 11 to 20 percent annually for the next three years. Small wonder that there are a rising number of America...
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Paying the price of future health care benefits.
Risk Management
; Paying the Price of Future Health Care Benefits Can we afford the future? That was the question asked by health care benefits experts recently in an atmosphere of wariness and concern at the Association of Private Pension and Welfare Plans 22nd Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. The health care
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Health Care Benefits Are Top Concern for United Auto Workers.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
; ... A. Webster, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 12--It's 8 a.m. at the Lakeside Mall, and the stores are ... parking spot, UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said during a recent news media briefing. A universal health care system is the only answer ...
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Bill's Book: Protecting retirees' health care benefits
New Pittsburgh Courier
; Just this month, Allegheny County residents received word that US Airways, which employs many people in this region, is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and that the Ames department store chain, after a period of downsizing, is finally giving up entirely and will close its remaining stores and go
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Correcting benefits strategy.(News)(Harrah's Entertainment Inc makes changes in its health care benefits)
Business Insurance
; Byline: JOANNE WOJCIK WASHINGTON-Affordability of health care benefits has become a major concern for Las Vegas-based Harrah's Entertainment Inc., where most of its 100,000 hospitality workers' income is based on gratuities. It is not in general a high-income group, so we have a lot of employees
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Don't tax benefits.(Opinion)(tax on employee health care benefits)(Brief Article)
Crain's Detroit Business
; Federal law allows employers to deduct the cost of offering health benefits to employees. But Michigan taxes employers on the benefits they provide. That policy needs to change. It's counter-intuitive to tax employers on their costs for providing health care. Last week, the state House passed a
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