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The soaring cost of health care is harming the ability of many employers to recruit and retain workers.

“The consensus among many of the responding employers is that attracting and retaining employees has become a street fight,” says Michael Thompson, president and CEO of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions. “Concerns about a recession and runaway inflation make it even more critical that employers are able to hire and keep top talent, and getting unreasonable health care costs under control can have a far-reaching impact on wages and ability to compete.”

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