Monday, December 08, 2003


Newsday.com - Survey: No Relief In Health Care Costs
The cost of health care benefits continued to gallop at a double-digit pace this year and promises to get worse in 2004, a survey released today found.

Nationwide, employers' health benefit costs rose 10.6 percent in 2003, and companies aren't expecting any let-up, predicting a 12.5 percent increase in 2004, according to the Mercer Human Resource Consulting annual health care survey.

I pray I don't get seriously ill. It would destroy me financially for the rest of my life probably.