Insurers have started encouraging consumers to use devices to help boost fitness and cut health-care costs.
However, senior employees can be expensive for companies, both in salary and health-care costs.
And they argue states need to prepare for rising health-care costs and cuts in federal aid.
Orszag is convinced that rising federal health-care costs are the most important cause of long-term deficits.
Among this crowd, it's taxes, health-care costs and, not surprisingly, gasoline prices, he says.
Unlike Prop B, Mr. Adachi's new plan wouldn't modify employees' health-care costs, which are also skyrocketing.
Both sides of the debate agree health-care costs are rising for reasons that transcend courtrooms.
And on the contrary, the legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health-care costs.
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It is health-care costs, rather than pension costs, that are the bigger threat to American finances.
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That could be partly because congressional budget analysts recently lowered their projections for future health-care costs.
She hoped that the government would help bring down health-care costs rather than increase them.
Health-care costs rose about 8% in 2011 and are projected to rise by 8.5% in 2012.
If national policy trusted and encouraged them to do so, our skyrocketing health-care costs would decelerate.
An increase in monthly premiums for home health-care costs is also a good idea.
After all, in the early 1980s health-care costs were rising by more than 10% a year.
These figures include health-care costs, lost workdays and the lost earning potential of the dead.
But David Sedgwick, editor of Automotive News, says high health-care costs are only part of the problem.
Rising health-care costs appear to have suppressed wages, as firms seek to make up for the expense.
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LTV's problems were typical of the entire industry's: 7, 500 workers supported the health-care costs of 50, 000 pensioners.
Choking health-care costs have individuals and entrepreneurs desperately scrambling for any relief--even into the waiting arms of scammers.
Besides, the curse of rising health-care costs afflicts private as well as public care, Mr Galbraith points out.
Americans don't expect the quality of their care or access to it to decline as health-care costs drop.
There is growing evidence that focusing holistically on wellness can reduce health-care costs by emphasising prevention over treatment.
Social Security funding and health-care costs remain ominous financial threats to our nation.
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But America takes this to extremes, propelled by an inefficient tax code and the rapid rise in health-care costs.
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Drivers will also be charged six cents per fare, with proceeds going to a fund to cover their health-care costs.
Obama released a statement citing various benefits of the package, from increasing capacity for renewable energy to lowering health-care costs.
No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just slowed their rate of increase) by improving medical services.
On some specifics they agree: health-care costs must be brought down, and the retirement age lifted from 65 to 67.
That, along with concern about slow wage growth and rising health-care costs could trump the positive economic news of recent years.
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