2004-05-12
Big employers move to help some uninsured workers: via an insurance pool for healthcare for part-timers and contractors. "Today, families spend an average 16 percent of their collective income on health insurance -- twice the percentage they spent in 1987," said Len Nichols, at the Center for Studying Health System Change. Aetna, Cigna and UnitedHealth Group are among those bidding to insure the pool.
