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Healthcare Costs Inspire Employer Activism and Employee Dissatisfaction – What PwC Found Behind the Numbers

Health Populi

each year between 2006 and 2016, employees’ healthcare cost sharing grew 4.5%. a year, PwC notes in their annual report, Medical cost trend: Behind the numbers 2020 from the firm’s Health Research Institute. In the U.S. In that decade, Americans’ median wages rose 1.8%

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Is a Federal Medical License Constitutional?

Bill of Health

Raich (where the Court bent the Tenth Amendment to prohibit marijuana cultivation that was legal in California), the similar 2006 decision Gonzales v. Sebelius (2012) , which upheld the Affordable Care Act while declaring the individual mandate a violation of the Commerce Clause. Oregon , and NFIB v.

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