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lsanderson ([personal profile] lsanderson) wrote2010-09-03 07:26 am

Shocked! I'm just shocked!

Employers Push Costs for Health on Workers
By REED ABELSON
Published: September 2, 2010
As health care costs continue their relentless climb, companies are increasingly passing on higher premium costs to workers. More


Shifting the Health Cost Burden
Published: September 2, 2010
The latest annual survey of employer health benefits contains good news for the employers but bad news for their workers. The good news is that the average total premium for employer-sponsored health insurance (typically paid partly by employers and partly by their workers) rose only a modest 3 percent this year for family plans, reaching $13,770 in 2010. More

[identity profile] shsilver.livejournal.com 2010-09-03 01:05 pm (UTC)(link)
But I keep hearing how companies will do what is right for society out of altruism. Are you implying that my conservative friends are not being entirely truthful?

[identity profile] galacticvoyeur.livejournal.com 2010-09-03 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
The Neocons are culling the herd. We are the herd. Don't like it? Crawl off into an abandoned lot and die.