Health plans propose lowest rate increases in 5 years: health trend should abate somewhat, but it's still far beyond inflation.

Publication: Medicine & Health

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The cost of health coverage has been increasing faster than anyone can catch up with, but there's a chance it's at least slowing down a tad.

That's according to new analysis released by benefits firm Hewitt Associates. Hewitt predicts that health plan rates will increase 12.4 percent nationally in 2006--the lowest rate of increase in more than five...

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