Study: Workers to pay more for health care

By CANDICE CHOI , AP Business Writer, Medicine & Health / Health

(AP) -- Get ready for another hike in copays and deductibles. A survey being released Thursday by the Mercer consulting firm found 59 percent of companies intend to keep down rising health care costs in 2009 by raising workers' deductibles, copays or out-of-pocket spending limits.

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