Employers will pay almost $600 more per employee this year in health care costs, according to a recent Towers Perrin survey. This brings the average annual cost of providing health care to $8,424--a whopping 140 percent increase over the past 10 years.
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"The health care crisis has become a chronic problem for U.S. employers and employees alike," says David Guilmette, managing director of health and welfare for Towers Perrin. "There is a fundamental tension between managing costs and managing people that constrains how much of the cost can be shifted to employees."
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