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Health care expenses are a key: when it comes to health care coverage, which states offer the...

By Keating, Michael
Publication: Expansion Management
Date: Tuesday, February 1 2005

HEALTH CARE COSTS ARE KEEPING business executives awake at night. According to a recent survey by accountant recruiter Robert Half Management Resources, the biggest concern for corporate executives during the next four years will be health care costs and health care in general.

A whopping 89 percent of the 1,400 chief financial officers surveyed ranked health care, including escalating costs for employee medical plans, as their biggest concern, easily topping energy costs, the federal budget deficit, government spending and other issues.

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