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To those two age-old certainties, death and taxes, we can now add a third, rising healthcare costs – or can we?
According to a new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Behind the numbers: Medical cost trends for 2009, healthcare costs are anything but a continually ascending line on a chart. It's much more complicated. And the implications for everyone involved, employers, health plans providers, the pharmaceutical industry, to name but a few are profound.
To find out what is at work here, to get behind the numbers, so to speak, Mike Thompson and Jeff Fusile, partners and leaders in the PwC Human Resources and Healthcare Advisory teams, respectively discuss medical cost trends in this podcast.
Podcast: Behind the numbers: Medical cost trends for 2009
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