Business healthcare costs vary from state to state: as healthcare costs continue to be an...

HEALTHCARE COSTS ARE STILL KEEPING EXECUTIVES awake at night. In fact, healthcare will be the greatest source of cost pressure on companies for the first half of 2007, say more than half of the CEOs polled in the Business Roundtable's latest Economic Outlook Survey.

Healthcare spending, according to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, represents 16 percent of the total U.S. economic output. And even though healthcare cost increases for U.S. employers moderated slightly in 2006, those cost hikes are still climbing twice as fast as inflation and wage growth, re