Tag: healthcare
U.S. workers’ wages, adjusted for inflation, are stagnating, but their share of health care costs keeps going up. “Something has got to give, right? That something could very well be the 401(k) or 403(b) plan,” said Mark Zoril, a personal financial planner and benefits adviser to small companies. Six in 10 workers agreed: the rising…
Health insurance is really starting to hurt. Premium increases and deductible creep, documented in the Kaiser Family Foundation’s comprehensive annual survey of employer health benefits, are eye-popping figures. Although there has been a slowdown in medical inflation and health care spending overall, the growing prominence of high-deductible plans is evidence that more of these costs…
