title: Cost of health benefits becoming major business issue, conference told.
abstract: As governments attempt to off-load health care costs in an attempt to cut budgets, the bills are being passed to businesses that provide supplementary health care coverage. Business representatives attending a recent conference heard that employers experienced a 26% increase in the cost of providing supplementary health and dental benefits between 1990 and 1994.
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authors.lastname: Silversides
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets; D002170:Canada; D003363:Cost Control; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics*; D017048:Health Care Costs; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000191:economics*; D007343:Insurance Carriers