Core and Group Health

As if the end of summer weren't bad enough, we have the U.S. Census Bureau sending us off into the cool, dark days of autumn with a double dose of bad news.

Despite health reform, fewer Americans are confident employer-based health coverage will be available for them in the future.

If we heard it once, we heard it a million times: "If you like your health plan, you can keep it."

Forty percent of middle-class Americans own some form of permanent life insurance coverage, and among those who don't own a permanent life policy, one in four say they're likely to purchase this type of coverage in the future.

Medical plan costs are predicted to grow at double-digit rates in the next 12 months, according to Aon Consulting's 2010 Health Care Trend Survey.

Aon Consulting surveyed more than 60 leading health care insurers, representing more than 100 million insured individuals, and found that health care costs