That appeals to businesses, which, like individuals, are feeling increasingly insecure as the cost of employee health benefits continues to soar well above the rate of inflation.

这对公司也同样具有吸引力。由于员工健康保险费用的增长大大超过了通货膨胀的增长率，公司的不安全感也同个人一样与日俱增。

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And he promised new cost controls that could scale back his plan if health-care inflation isn't brought under control.

他还表示，如果无法控制医疗费的膨胀，他会采取新的成本控制措施，缩减他的计划。

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Health care costs also have outstripped inflation; the cost of a catastrophic illness can quickly knock a middle-class household into another, better-defined economic category: poverty.

医疗费用的增速甚至也超过了通胀率；生一场大病就能迅速把一个中产家庭打入贫困家庭的行列。

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The state has set up an insurance clearing-house with subsidised products in the hope of reining in health-cost inflation, but costs look set to soar again this year.

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