(Reuters) -HCA Healthcare reported lower-than-expected quarterly profit on Friday and forecast up to a $300-million hit in the fourth quarter due to delays in medical procedures from recent hurricanes, causing its shares to drop 9%. Hospitals in the direct path of the ...
Since 2002, health care costs have risen an average of 15 percent a year and are expected to double by the year 2016 from the $2.2 trillion spent in 2007.78 And smokers cost companies even more—about 25 percent more for health care than nonsmokers do.79 However, the biggest health care ...