One increase fits all.

No matter their size, employers felt the pinch
of rising premiums for group medical insurance
from June through November, 2004.

 Company        50 or fewer   51 to 500   501 or more
  size           employees   employees   employees

Rates rose by

1% to 10%           12%         55%          13%

10% to 20%          19%         64%           5%

20% to 30%          30%         40%

Source: Survey of 77 U.S. companies, Council of Insurance
Agents and Brokers, Washington, D.C., www.ciab.com, 2004.

Note: Table made from bar graph.