Health plans dwindle in U.S.

The San Franscisco Chronicle reports:

the percentage of businesses offering health benefits to employees dropped to 60 percent in 2005, down from 69 percent in 2000.

The report, considered an authoritative study on health coverage in the United States, found little reason to celebrate the return to single-digit health insurance premium increases. It stressed that there has been no let-up in the trend of fast-rising costs, making health care increasingly unaffordable for both employers and workers.

As we've said before, getting health care at work is a really bad idea.We'd bet if millions of people got their car insurance at work there would be a car insurance crisis.