Corporate Research Group’s Weblog

Writing about rising costs in healthcare is easy.  You just take the same article you wrote last year, tweak a number here and there, and you’re done.

For example, last year around this time I wrote:

A survey from Aon Consulting found that employers can expect healthcare claims costs to rise 10.6% over the next 12 months before benefit buydowns.  Aon surveyed more than 70 leading health plans representing 100 million lives.  The survey found HMO costs are expected to rise 10.6%, POS plans 10.5%, PPOs 10.7% and consumer-directed plans 10.5%.

This year:

A survey from Aon Consulting found that employers can expect healthcare claims costs to rise 10.5% over the next 12 months before benefit buydowns.  Aon surveyed more than 60 leading health plans representing 100 million lives.  The survey found HMO costs are expected to rise 10.4%, POS plans 10.4%, PPOs 10.7% and consumer-directed plans 10.5%.

And you thought rising healthcare costs were a problem.

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