1 The Inflated Cost of Healthcare

Company healthcare costs increase roughly 15 percent every year, which consequently threatens to lower the standard of living for employees. To compensate rising costs, stealth taxes, as Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey describes, are passed down to employees in the form of increased premiums, co pays and deductibles. Dickey stresses the need for understanding of what is actually driving inflation and the education of employees on how they can become better consumers of healthcare.

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