Off Topic: Business Group Says Without Changes Per Employee Annual Health Care Cost Will Rise to $29k By 2019.

Tip of the hat to beSpacific:

Report Shows Health Care Costs Will Skyrocket to Nearly $29,000 per Employee in the Next Decade Without Effective Reform News release: "A new report released by Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies, finds that annual per employee health care costs will triple to nearly $29,000 over the next decade without significant marketplace reforms that reduce costs, expand coverage and improve delivery. These runaway costs, combined with a $56 billion cost shift to payors from uncompensated care, are threatening the employer-based system that currently provides coverage for the majority of Americans and their families."

• Report Fact Sheet - Health Care Reform: The Perils of Inaction and the Promise of Effective Action
• Full Report - Health Care Reform: The Perils of Inaction and the Promise of Effective Action, A Report to Business Roundtable by Hewitt Associates LLC September 2009
• Related postings on health care reform

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