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January 26, 2005

All Business: Health care costs making firms sick

  • Big gains in health care costs come just as companies are trying to fend off other pressures to the bottom line.
    • By RACHEL BECK
    AP Business Writer

    NEW YORK — Wake up calls usually are loud and jarring, which explains why so much attention is being paid to General Motors Corp.'s warning that soaring health care costs are hurting its bottom line.

    It's not that other companies aren't seeing their profits getting pinched from the additional expenses they must incur to offer health care and prescription drug coverage to employees and often retirees, too.


     
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