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How is that possible, when the Consumer Price Index is flat, and prices for food, clothing, and other basic goods have been falling?
“It’s unsustainable,” said Joseph Reilly, head of Aon’s Northeast health and benefits advisory practice in Parsippany, N.J., which advises big employers on what benefits to buy, and what to cut.
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But managers aren’t eating all those costs. “Employers might see a 5 percent increase,” Reilly explained. “They’re passing the other 5 percent on to the health-care population” – that’s the public – through higher co-payments, higher drug payments, higher employee contributions.
After all, someone has to make up for all the money those CEOs lost in the stock market.