Paul Fronstin
Paul Fronstin
desperate sign
These are a sign of how desperate we've become.
costs coverage people private public pushing rising
Rising health-care costs are pushing more people into public coverage from private coverage. I don't know how long that can last.
assumption care cost health living people
People make the assumption that their cost of living will go down when they retire, but if you have a lot of health care issues, your cost of living could go up.
happens light massive medicare next problem
It doesn't look hopeful. It's a massive problem especially in light of what happens to Medicare over the next 14 years.
expect happening inflation investment pushing return seeing
They're seeing it as an investment with a cost, ... but an investment they expect to get a return on. All this is happening while healthcare-cost inflation is back and pushing 10 percent.
cost workers
If workers are going to use the services, it's going to cost them more money.
call cost current early evolution grand justify looking save sold trends whatever
We're very early on in whatever you want to call this, the evolution or grand experiment. In some sense they (companies) justify it by looking at their current cost trends and getting sold on the idea that this is going to save them money.