U.S. health care costs constitute over $1 trillion, over 14%, of the gross national product. This came out to an average per employee cost of $5800 in 2004. Costs are expected to double to about $2 trillion by the year 2007. In fact, over 50% of corporate profits now go for health care costs versus only 7% three decades ago.
Companies are not passively accepting these rising health care costs,...