Healthcare DIVE July 1, 2025
“Employers have absorbed the majority of cost increases over the past four years, and they likely cannot continue to do so,” one expert said.
It’s a tale as old as time: Healthcare costs are rising faster than inflation, and employers are struggling to manage them as they eat up a larger and larger share of their budgets.
Healthcare costs are expected to rise by nearly 8% in 2025, according to a report by the Business Group on Health, contributing to a more than 50% increase since 2017.
“We are now experiencing the highest year-over-year increase in more than a decade,” Jim Winkler, chief strategy officer at the Business Group on Health, said in an email. “Employers have absorbed the majority...
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