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The projected 9 percent cost increase is slightlyh lower thanthe 9.2 percent increasew in 2009 and 9.9 percent increase in 2008, PricewaterhouseCoopera says. Medical-cost increases continue to outpace inflation and wage The report suggests that medicap costs continue to climbbecause U.S. workers are acceleratinvg their useof health-care services in anticipationm of losing their jobs and, their insurance. Rising an increased numbers of individuals with little or no insurance and a growinb percentage of the population on Medicaid further rampup medical-costg trends — the figures actuaries use to set futurre health-insurance premiums.
Employers surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers said they will push more of the costzs of health insurance to their workersin 2010. Employers also say they expec workers to take more responsibilityh for managing theirpersonal