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RAND Study Finds Economic Burden of Health Insurance Increasing for Small Employers Providing Health Insurance.
AScribe Business & Economics News Service, April, 2008
Byline: RAND Corporation
SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- The economic burden of providing health insurance for workers increased more for small businesses than for large ones from 2000 to 2005, but the spike did not cause a significant number of small employers to abandon the benefit, according to a study issued today by the RAND Corporation.
Small businesses (those with 25 or fewer employees) saw the expense of providing health insurance rise by nearly 30 percent during the study period -- significantly more than the hikes experienced by medium and large businesses examined by the study.
Researchers found no evidence that small businesses were more likely than large employers to quit providing health insurance for their...
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