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Healthcare Cost Increases Predicted to Slow Down

With the advent of "Obamacare," as many call it, business owners started causing a fuss about having to provide health benefits for their employees. The complaints ranged from the reasonable concerns of small business owners barely making a profit as it is, to the more annoying moaning from large companies worried about charging customers an additional five cents for a pizza. Fortunately, according to a report from PwC, the rise of healthcare costs seems to be slowing, and may soon reach reasona…

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