With all the news about potential health care reform in the U.S., many publications are looking more closely at the issue – and some surveys have been released looking at where medical costs are going in the next year, and how employers are dealing with the continued increases.
A recent report from PricewaterhouseCoopers says that medical costs continued to grow in late 2008 and early 2009; growth in costs for 2010 is expected to be 9%, slightly lower than in previous years. Employers in the survey said they were ready to push more of these costs for health care to workers, and expect workers to take more responsibility for managing their health in 2010.
