Posted on 09/20/2023 10:56:13 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
U.S. employers are bracing for the largest increase in health insurance costs in a decade next year, according forecasts from healthcare consultants, but workers may be somewhat spared this time around in a tight labor market.
Benefit consultants from Mercer, Aon (AON.N) and Willis Towers Watson (WTW.O) see employer healthcare costs jumping 5.4% to 8.5% in 2024 due to medical inflation, soaring demand for costly weight-loss drugs and wider availability of high-priced gene therapies.
Advertisement · Scroll to continue A survey conducted by Mercer, a unit of Marsh McLennan (MMC.N), found over two thirds of employers either do not plan to shift any cost increase to their staff or will pass on less than the expected rise in 2024.
"They don't want to add more financial stress on employees who are also coping with inflation, especially in this time where they're really relying on their health benefits as a way to keep employees working for them," said Beth Umland, Mercer's director of health & benefits research.
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I thought obama and the colluding media said obamacare would make healthcare affordable?
President Trump can SAVE Obamacare and Americans Health Insurance by Signing an Executive Order Mandating ALL Non Military Federal Employee’s enroll in The Affordable Care Act, I would also Halt ALL Government Funds to any State that doesn’t have 100% of their public employee’s on Obamacare.
The Money the taxpayers save on these bloated high priced inadequate health plans for federal employee’s can be used to Finish The Wall.
And do those Rooters idiots not understand that the cost of EVERYTHING those 'workers' buy will rise to absorb the additional cost of doing business ?
Actually, some of them likely do understand but publish drek like this assuming most of the moronic population doesn't.
Obamacare is very affordable, if you are healthy and do not need it.
So you are paying for something you’ll never use? LOL!
“soaring demand for costly weight-loss drugs”
I thought insurance doesn’t pay for Ozempic and other diabetes drugs when used for weight loss. Major off label. I stand to be corrected....
Feel the pulse of the situation.
Post #10. Yep.
I hope you caught my being facetious.
Building back better
Joe Biden
Same as you with your wife hahaha
Wegovy is the weight loss version of semaglutide, Ozempic is the diabetes version. Weight loss is the certified use for Wegovy and some insurances cover it.
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