- Employer healthcare costs are expected to rise nearly 9% in 2014
- 126 insurers and health plan administrators nationwide surveyed
- PPO plans are expected to rise 8.7% this year and HMOs 8.6%
- Many health economists and industry officials have attributed the slowdown primarily to lingering effects of the Great Recession, when millions of Americans cut back on medical care
Source: L.A. Times.
