title: Tracking health care costs: an upswing in premiums and costs underlying health insurance.
abstract: This Data Bulletin is based on data from the Milliman & Robertson Health Cost Index, which is designed to reflect cost increases faced by private insurers; the Kaiser Family Foundation/Hospital Research and Education Trust survey of employer-based health plans for 1998-2000; and the KPMG survey of employer-based health plans for 1993-1998.
mesh_terms: D017047:Cost Sharing / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States