{"id":13256,"date":"2024-10-01T15:57:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T15:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13256"},"modified":"2024-10-09T15:58:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T15:58:48","slug":"high-health-care-costs-hurting-wisconsin-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13256","title":{"rendered":"High Health Care Costs Hurting Wisconsin Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/wmc-in-the-news\/high-health-care-costs-hurting-wisconsin-businesses\/\">https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/wmc-in-the-news\/high-health-care-costs-hurting-wisconsin-businesses\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">WMC\u2019s latest\u00a0<em>Wisconsin Employer Survey<\/em>\u00a0found that high health care costs in the state are detrimental to Wisconsin businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWisconsin has the fifth highest hospital costs in the entire country, and that has really hurt employers by putting them at a competitive disadvantage,\u201d said WMC\u2019s Associate Vice President of Government Relations &amp; Senior Political Advisor Rachel Ver Velde. \u201cThe number one thing our employers say government can do to help their business is to make health care more affordable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the survey, employers noted that high health care costs mean higher costs for customers, lower compensation for employees and less capital investment.<\/p>\n<p>WMC is advocating for legislation that supports hospital price transparency and a workers compensation medical fee schedule to help bring costs down.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/wmc-in-the-news\/high-health-care-costs-hurting-wisconsin-businesses\/\">High Health Care Costs Hurting Wisconsin Businesses<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\">WMC Wisconsin&#8217;s Chamber <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/wmc-in-the-news\/high-health-care-costs-hurting-wisconsin-businesses\/ WMC\u2019s latest\u00a0Wisconsin Employer Survey\u00a0found that high health care costs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13257,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13256\/revisions\/13257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}