Group health insurance demographic is "graying".

M2 PRESSWIRE-3 January 2007-YALE UNIVERSITY: Group health insurance demographic is "graying"(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03012007 New Haven, Conn. - The population in group health private insurance is becoming older and wealthier at a rate greater than the population overall, which could add pressure to an already strained health insurance system, according to a Yale School of Medicine study.

This trend makes it harder for health insurers to pool risks since fewer younger people with lower health costs are covered by these employment-based plans, said ...

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