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Show Rapid, rising costs Health care cost containment remains re-mains the chief concern of human resource professionals, according to Employee Benefit News. Even so, 43 percent of those recently surveyed said that they've actually added at least one new medical benefit in the past three years, including in-cluding baby care (11 percent); preventive care ( 1 1 percent); dental care (10 percent); prescription drug coverage (10 percent) vision (eight percent) and substance abuse treatment treat-ment (six percent). The top three concerns, in order, ' of human resource professionals? Health care cost increases; providing pro-viding a competitive health insurance in-surance plan, and lack of employee awareness of costs. |