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Health costs put squeeze on Sacramento, Calif.,.
Byline: Phillip Reese
Mar. 9--Unless something changes fast, health insurance costs will soon become a $70 million problem for Sacramento city officials.
Other local municipalities also are suffering huge increases in health costs.
All face a similar dilemma: How to keep costs down for employees without cutting services or passing the buck to taxpayers.
"It's just a problem for which there doesn't seem to be a solution," said Lillian Hare, city clerk and head of human resources for Rancho Cordova.
In Sacramento, health insurance costs have doubled since 1996, with annual family premiums rising from $5,165 to $9,987.
The city's health insurance costs will rise from $27.5 million to $68.6 million by 2013, according to a…
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