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The projected 9 percent cost increasd is slightly lower thanthe 9.2 percentf increase in 2009 and 9.9 percentg increase in 2008, PricewaterhouseCoopers Medical-cost increases continue to outpace inflation and wage The report suggests that medical costs continuwe to climb because U.S. workers are accelerating their useof health-carwe services in anticipation of losing theire jobs and, potentially, their insurance. Rising unemployment, an increaseed numbers of individuals with little or no insurance and a growinh percentage of the population on Medicaid further rampup medical-cosf trends — the figured actuaries use to set futur e health-insurance premiums.
Employers surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers said they will push more of the costsw of health insurance to theitr workersin 2010. Employers also say they expecf workers to take more responsibility for managing theirdpersonal health.