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aamusedinatxI'm not sure but...this article in the Chron this morning notes:
It's our biggest expense here. No kidding. And my boss has cut all other employee benefits just so he can keep offering us basic HMO coverage at a co-pay that won't kill most of us. NO vision or dental--we can't afford it, but if I get hit by a bus, at least that's covered. Small business in particular is hard hit in trying to offer their employees coverage, but even fortune 500 companies spend millions on health care coverage for employees.
It is out of control and I think a dying offering of corporate america in the very near future. Which means potentially 2/3rds of Americans could be without basic health care coverage in less than 20 years.
Unless we do something.
Employer-sponsored health insurance is becoming scarcer and more expensive.
Premiums for job-based health insurance rose 9.2 percent on average nationwide in 2005, about three times the general rate of inflation, according to the annual health coverage survey of the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research & Educational Trust. Nonetheless, that increase marked the first year since 2000 in which the increase was less than 10 percent.
Meanwhile, the percentage of businesses offering health benefits to employees dropped to 60 percent in 2005, down from 69 percent in 2000.
It's our biggest expense here. No kidding. And my boss has cut all other employee benefits just so he can keep offering us basic HMO coverage at a co-pay that won't kill most of us. NO vision or dental--we can't afford it, but if I get hit by a bus, at least that's covered. Small business in particular is hard hit in trying to offer their employees coverage, but even fortune 500 companies spend millions on health care coverage for employees.
It is out of control and I think a dying offering of corporate america in the very near future. Which means potentially 2/3rds of Americans could be without basic health care coverage in less than 20 years.
Unless we do something.
