Commercial Health Care Cost Trend—Finally Hitting Bottom?

Commercia health insurance cost trend peaked in 2003 when costs hit 13.9%. On the same basis, health care cost trend fell to 7.7% in 2006 (Source: Kaiser Family Foundation Survey).Will medical cost trend keep falling in 2007 or are we near the bottom?The health insurance business tends to benefit from falling trend rates. Employers and benefit consultants tend to look backward when health care