“Possible Nurses Strike At Brigham And Women’s Hospital Averted” gives some insight into how much we’ll be paying for health insurance going forward:
On wages, the 52 percent of Brigham nurses who are not yet at the top step for seniority would see a 17 percent rise in wages during the three-year contract. Nurses who are at the top step, meaning they’ve been at the Brigham for 18 years or more, would see a 4.5 percent increase over three years.
5.4 and 1.47% increases per year? I’d take some weighted average of that in health care these days.
the “Brig” was where surgeon Michael Davidson lost his life while trying to reason with the deranged son of a recently deceased elderly woman who’d been in Davidson’s care. Not for the faint of heart to deal with the public as nurses & physicians have to do: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2015/06/30/brigham-and-womens-hospital-shooting/