EBRI: paying health bills dings savings rate.(Personal Health Funding)(Employee Benefit Research Institute)

Publication: Medicine & Health

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If Americans weren't paying higher health costs, where would the money go? In many cases, it would go into personal savings accounts to fund retirement and other needs. That's according to the annual Health Confidence Survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute.

A majority of Americans with non-government-sponsored coverage say they experienced a cost increase in the past year, according to this seventh...

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