Health benefits in 2019: premiums inch higher, employers respond to federal policy

Health Affairs

25 September 2019 - The annual Kaiser Family Foundation Employer Health Benefits Survey found that in 2019 the average annual premium for single coverage rose 45 to $7,188, and the average annual premium for family coverage rose 55 to $20,576. 

Covered workers contributed 18% of the cost for single coverage and 30 percent of the cost for family coverage, on average, with considerable variation across firms. 

Fifty-seven percent of firms offered health benefits to at least some of their workers. While some larger firms reported that take-up dropped because of the elimination of the individual mandate penalty, the overall share of workers covered at their own firm (61%) was similar to that in recent years.

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