Many employers to raise cost of health benefits, survey finds

Would someone hire me? Please? Anyone?

this is why no one has a 40 hour workweek anymore.

Love these 5 year old reports masquerading as current events. Employers have been sleeping with the medical industry devils for at least 5 years. Just raising our copays and rates and sometimes cutting a break for the employer pay side. Back in 2003 or 04 I think, Kaiser tripled the employee subscription rate, held the company's rate flat.

The Unions have come out in favor of HR 676.

Are you sure? I've heard mention that if your employer has an expensive crappy plan, like Wal Mart that you won't be able to refuse it and choose the public option. Let's look them over carefully before making any assumptions.

once the reform comes out, there will be choices, so. if your current one is expensive, you'll just switch to another. and your current one will be forced to make it affordable.

our healthcare is effed.

I'm glad Obama is taking on healthcare reform. I like how he said, "I may not be the first president to take on healthcre, but I certainly am determined to be the last..."

They need a survey to discover health care costs are going up?

What's next, a survey to see if the sun is going to come up tomorrow?

Already people are spending huge amounts for health care.
Even people who retire from where I work, (and we have good benefits when compared to most other companies) are now taking part-time jobs, when they can find them, just to PAY for health care.
A couple in their early 60s paying over 800 bucks a month for coverage that is OK, but not that great.
And this insurance is cheap because so many members are in it!
Those that oppose single-payer are just don't get it. And further, I don't think they care. They got theirs, so to hell with everyone else.

If nothing is done, and it looks like nothing effective is going to be done, the insurance companies will keep shifting the cost of care to the insured, so that the CEOs and Executives can increase their obscene salaries, bonuses and golden parachute plans.

Hey its a business and the goal is to make as much money as possible and supply the least product. This is the problem, it is for profit, and if we regulated it like SWitzerland, it would solve the issue without single payer.
But our corrupt Senators and Congress members are owned by the greedy insurance companies. So..................what is going to have to happen for real change? The people screaming about being anti-reform don't realize that if they are alive in 10 years they will regret their stance because they will be spending 50 percent of their income supporting the lifestyle of the insurance hierarchy.

saw this coming

They are going to have to pass on the cost of health insurance to the workers. Some are going to stop health insurance entirely. People need to be aware of this and plan for it.
We need a decent public option not co-ops or a choice of crooked insurance companies. We need HR 676. Improved expanded Medicare. We better start fighting or we are going to be in deep shit with the plans they are talking about and they are going to force us to buy something.

With the cost of insurance doubling every ten years or so it is hard to blame employers for this. How are they supposed to keep up? And how can any sane person stand against health care reform. I think some people just fear change and the unknown. They would rather ride this downward spiral right into the ground than try something new. I just wish I didn't have to go with them.

Like it or not, change is coming. If you oppose health care reform, you support paying higher premiums year after year. These people who don't want to get screwed by the govt that they elect are happy to get screwed by insurers that they have no control over. I guess the questions are, how much money are you willing to pay to get screwed and how much control do you want over who is screwing you?