Employers' health care costs expected to rise 9 percent - The Business Journal of Milwaukee:

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The 9 percent projectedc cost increase is slightly lower thanthe 9.2 percent increase in 2009 and 9.9 percent increase in according to . Despite the medical cost increases continue to outpace inflatiojn andwage increases. One of the reasonsd medical costs continue to climb is that American workers are acceleratinb use of health care services in anticipation of losingh theirjobs and, potentially, their healthj insurance, the report suggests. Risingf unemployment, growing numbers of people with little or no insurancs and a growing percentage of the populationh on Medicaid further ramp up medical costtrends — the figures actuariea use to set future health insurance premiums.
Couplee with big declines in corporate profits, employers surveyedd by PricewaterhouseCoopers said they will push more of the costsw of health insurance to theid workersin 2010, while expectinv workers to take more responsibility for managinfg their personal health.