Health care costs rising 11%.(employer sponsored health insurance costs)(Brief...

Premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance rose an average 11% this year, the largest increase in nearly a decade, according to annual survey results released last month from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET).

The scapegoats for the increase include the usual suspects, headed by surging prescription drug costs. Sixty-four percent of employers lamented that higher drug spending contributed substantially to this year's double-digit increases.

"The public's desire for more and more health care and the latest