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Health insurance prices in the U.S. have been spiraling for four consecutive years, and employers are now bracing for the highest spike yet in 2025—the biggest increase in 15 years, according to a wide-ranging survey of more than 1,700 employers. The National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans by Mercer, a subsidiary of Marsh McLennan, is part of the advisory firm’s services to help employers manage health insurance costs while seeking to improve employee health and well-being. Sunit Patel, Mercer’s US Chief Actuary for Health and Benefits, said two factors are combining to send costs higher. “Health benefit cost trend has...

Democrats are on a dead end: Socialism is 200 years old and is leading these leftists to doom. The left sealed its fate in tying itself to collectivist ideologies, but now they're joining with some very ominous allies. Everything old is 'new' again – with a very ominous novel twist. The rising stars of socialism are bursting forth with brand-new' ideas of buying votes with other people's money. But these days the left is in dire straits and taking a page from the Iranian revolution in teaming up with Islamists in a desperate bid to win and then sort out...

MSNBC’s James Woods-dubbed “media gnat” Ali Velshi continues to illustrate why socialist media talking heads know as much about sound economics as flat-earthers know about astrophysics. Velshi went on a rant against rich people and American capitalism during the August 23 edition of MSNBC’s Velshi, an irony since he has an estimated net worth of $5 million. He bellyached over a strawman notion that “America has been sold a myth” that the rich have been punished by a punitive tax system, when the “reality is economic policy hasn’t even remotely punished the elites in this country. It has simply rewarded...