Higher-education institutions nationwide saw health-care premiums for plans covering employees and their families rise by 7 percent this year, according to results of a new survey by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources.
That compares with a 5.7 percent increase for such plans last year.
The 2010 Comprehensive Survey of College and University Benefits Programs, based on responses from 424 institutions, also found that the median total premium cost for employee-only plans increased by 6.7 percent in 2010, compared with 3.7 percent in 2009. Institutions were asked about the three most common types of plans: preferred provider organizations, health-maintenance organizations, and point-of-service plans.
A full version of the report can be purchased through the association's Web site.
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1. alvitap - September 09, 2010 at 11:06 am
Test question 1.
Choose one.
a. Welfare subsidies to design and build military jets, bombers, bombs, rifles, bullets, ships, rockets, missiles, and health care for only the welfare recipients who benefit from the military. industrial complex. Not for the taxpayers who pay for this.
b. Single-payer (the same government) insurance that covers everyone from birth to death.
2. rightwingprofessor - September 09, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Obamacare is already causing huge premium increases, soon we will see coverage loss as well. There's a reason that not a single one of the 219 House Democrats that voted for Obamacare has run a single campaign commericial touting the bill.
3. samwise - September 10, 2010 at 04:12 pm
to rightwingprofessor: and this from a political slant that would rather have people dying in the street than coming up with a solution. While the new health care plan has faults at least it was a step to provide coverage that was sorely lacking. Instead of your reactionary statements how about putting your brain to work to fix the problem. by the way please don't tell me a market system because that is what we essentially have now and insurance companies are getting away with murder to make their bottom lines look better instead of making patients better. So until the "rightwing" faction starts doing something besides say no to everything your comment is political fluff.