Employee Health Insurance Costs Barely Increased This Year

[Tom Joad]

This sounds about right.

The current State of Florida Employee BCBS PPO family plan is $1434 a month or $17,208 a year

Employee Health Insurance Costs Barely Increased This Year
Posted: 09/10/2014 10:01 am EDT Updated: 1 hour ago

For a change, the cost of the health insurance you get at work didn't go up much this year.

The cost of job-based health benefits stayed nearly flat in 2014, according to survey results released Wednesday. This year's figures continue a trend of slow growth in premiums for health insurance provided by employers.

The average annual premium for a family plan rose 3 percent to $16,834, and the average price for a single worker increased 2 percent to $6,025, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the American Hospital Association's Health Research and Educational Trust found. Workers on family plans are paying an average 29 percent of that cost, while single employees are paying 18 percent of it. The groups polled more than 2,000 small and large employers for their report.

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