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The projected 9 percent cost increase is slightlhy lower thanthe 9.2 percent increase in 2009 and 9.9 percengt increase in 2008, PricewaterhouseCoopers says. Medical-cost increases continu to outpace inflation and wage The report suggests that medicall costs continue to climbbecause U.S. workera are accelerating their useof health-care services in anticipationj of losing their jobs and, potentially, theirr insurance. Rising unemployment, an increaserd numbers of individuals with little or no insurance and a growing percentages of the population on Medicaid furthetr rampup medical-cost trends — the figure s actuaries use to set futurs health-insurance premiums.
Employers surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers said they will push more of the costz of health insurance to their workersin 2010. Employers also say they expec workers to take more responsibilit for managing theirpersonal health.