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The survey, conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit research group, also shows that health-care premiums are climbing at their highest rate in more than a decade, driven by steep prescription drug costs, pricey new medical technology and insurers' profit gains. Monthly premiums for employer-sponsored health care in the United States jumped by 13.9 percent between spring 2002 and 2003, the sharpest spike since 1990, according to the study. And there is no let-up in sight, according to analysts. "We should expect to see rates of increase that far outpace everything else, including profits," said Jon Gabel, vice president at the Health Research Educational Trust, which helped run the survey.
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